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From: chuck@pluto.Harris-ATD.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re: New format of CACM
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Date: 13 May 91 19:22:46 GMT
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In article <5987@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
> Furthermore, Scientific American was "re-designed" quite recently, including
> the design of new typefonts for their own use, and remarkably, the article
> they published on this indicated that one of their inspirations was Knuth's
> work on his Computer Modern fonts.  The result was quite the opposite of
> what happened to CACM, where essentially every bit of Knuth's advice on
> typography has been consistently ignored.

     The typeface used in Scientific American is Lucida, designed by Charles
Bigelow, of Bigelow & Holmes.  It was not designed specifically for Scientific
American, but was designed to scale well when rendered on bitmapped devices
like screens and laser printers.  Particular attention was paid to the way
strokes and bowls came together, to avoid ink (toner?) traps at various
point sizes.

     I think Lucida looks quite good in Scientific American, and is a clean,
readable face.

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