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From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Control word for font design.
Message-ID: <696@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 5 Jan 91 09:20:37 GMT
References: <12592@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <12592@life.ai.mit.edu> karl@ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) writes:

>When designing a typeface, the letters `h' (or `n'), `a', and `e' are
>often done first, since they contain many repeated elements.  Other
>letters, like `f' and `g' and `t' are oddballs; there are no other
>letters in the modern Latin alphabet like them.  

For a practical example of this, see the letters Walter A Dwiggins
wrote to Rudolph Ruzicka about font designing. I think they were
published by Princeton University Press under the title _WAD to RR_.
Incidentally, they are also great examples of calligraphy.

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Anders Thulin       ath@prosys.se   {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath
Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden