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From: fkuhl@maestro.mitre.org (F. S. Kuhl)
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Subject: Re: ATM 1.1
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Date: 26 Mar 91 17:34:17 GMT
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In article <73552092@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
|> That GillSans supplied with Adobe Type Manager 1.1 is a pretty weird
|> font, isn't it!  I hate the tiny x-height as far as 300dpi printing
|> goes.  Doesn't it look like the face the Brits use on their street and
|> tube signs and a lot of their adverts?

Don't know about street signs, but Gill Sans was (so I understand)
commissioned from Eric Gill for the London Underground and is still
used on all their signs.
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Frederick Kuhl			fkuhl@mitre.org
Civil Systems Division
The MITRE Corporation