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From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon)
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Subject: Re: Garamond, Caslon, Minion, Utopia on laser printers?
Summary: terminology
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Date: 4 Apr 91 00:03:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.160855.4441@visix.com>, amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
writes:

> I've used Adobe Garamond, and seen stuff done with Minion.  Adobe Garamond
> is a very nice rendition of an old-fashioned Garamond.  It comes out well

I also have, and mam pleased with Adobe Garamond.  I find that I do NOT use
the Expert Collection as much as I expected to in buying it.  I'm tempted
by the current offer out of Font & Function, as I have tended to like Caslon-
style faces in the past, and the sample in F&F looks good.  But Caslon and
Garamond are fairly close in style and in the dates of the originals that
inspire them.

Minion is another matter.  

> Minion is a more modern typeface.  Like Adobe Garamond, I find it very
> pleasing to look at and read.  It's not based on any particular typeface
> that I know of, but it has some of the character of Palatino, albeit much

I find it odd to call Minion "modern" -- it certainly is an adaptation and
not any kind of copy of an older face, but as the ad-hype says in F&F:

	"Minion ... is a contemporary family inspired by classic old-style
	faces of the Renaissance"

I'm a sucker for Renaissance faces:  slab serifs on M and N, the slanted
bar of the e, a modulation of thick and thin that suggests a pen not too
far in the background (which is also the suggestion in Palatino).  Minion
underplays these elements -- but they are still there, they merely do not
obtrude.

Someone else has followed up this line to suggest that Minion does very
well at 300dpi; I think I am convinced :-)

(BTW: the ad-hype goes on to say, "Minion means a ''beloved servant''"
-- right; tell that to the court of the last Valois, contemporary with
the Renaissance faces Minion is based upon!
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