Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: What's yer fav. font combos?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.021623.16330@sq.sq.com>
Xfeet: bare
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <1991Apr20.044900.260@mac.cc.macalstr.edu> <1991Apr24.072153.23519@ico.isc.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 02:16:23 GMT
Lines: 22

rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Times and Helvetica aren't a bad pair; neither are they great.  (Sort of
>like the average American marriage [...]
Well, I don't know about American marriages, but people throughout the latin-
alphabet world are getting used to Times and Helvetica...

>One combination I've just come to like is Palatino and Optima

Both fine faces, but both have a drawback -- Optima is extraordinarily
difficult to render at 300dpi or lower, so it often looks bad on laser
printers, although some are better than others.
Palatino-Italic also sufferes from jaggies, and really needs to be kerned
carefully.  The Adobe kerning pairs are reasonable.

Lee


-- 
Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com
	   `What one person finds valuable others do not even notice.
	    And they do not notice that they do not notice.'
-- Scott Kim, `Interdisciplinary Communication', in `The Art of [HCI] Design'