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From: drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: re: Optima, Zapf book
Message-ID: <3643@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 91 19:33:38 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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Kathy Strong mentions:
Hermann Zapf and his design philosophy (Z250 A2 Z379 1987) (yes, he wrote it)

I have this at home (a bit pricey. more of a coffee table book than
reading), and seem to recall that it has a short essay on optima.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that optima was inspired by something
about superellipses. I thought this might have been in the metafont book, 
but can't seem to find it either in the section on superellipses, or on the
pages indexed under Zapf.

drstrip@cs.sandia.gov