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From: mwang@oracle.com (Michael Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: re: Optima, Zapf book
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Date: 22 Jan 91 14:30:15 GMT
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In article <3643@intvax.UUCP> drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip) writes:
> 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.

Actually the typeface Hermann Zapf designed that was inspired by superellipses
is Melior. It is a text face that was designed to be readable under less than 
ideal printing conditions.


Michael Wang
mwang@oracle.com