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From: FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
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Subject: Re: First faces in the Multiple Master format
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Date: 17 Apr 91 00:41:17 GMT
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I have to agree with the previous post (I lack an include prev msg function)
that Adobe is not so naive as to simply interpolate or extrapolate other
weights of the font. Having heard Sumner Stone, the former director of their
type development division, speak on how he developed the Stone families of
faces, it is obvious that they often use interpolations as starting points
for intermediate weights which are then modified into something appropriate.
For getting the stroke weight right, apparently, interpolation does
marvels; getting the feel right is another story.