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From: amy.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Amy Brown)
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Subject: Re: What's yer fav. font combos?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 05:57:16 GMT
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Andrew Gilmartin writes:

> In article <BJ8P11w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> amy.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Amy Brown
> writes:
> 
> >If anyone says Times and Helvetica... that is SAD.
> 
> If you want to distribute documents in processed electronic form (such as
> PostScript) then Times, Helvetica, and the other base fonts of the orginal
> LaserWriter are a lingua franca.
> 
> -- Andrew Gilmartin

Yes, but as a FAVORITE font?  They are so overused (for reasons stated... 
they are standard typeaces) that they tend to get on your nerves after a 
while.  ANY font would get on my nerves after seeing DAY after DAY after 
DAY......

Amy Brown
amy.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu

"If what's WEIRD to 'normal' people is NORMAL to 'weird' people, then what 
is weird and what is normal???"
          -My unanswered life story

"Stay sane inside insanity..."
          -Columbia, RHPS