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From: scobb@bti.UUCP (Steve Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neophyte's Blues
Summary: Where the Hell is that there Pearl font.
Keywords: Amiga 500, four days old, cool, now what?
Message-ID: <393@bti.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 02:32:31 GMT
References: <10251@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <12193@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: Biomagnetic Technologies, inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <12193@ut-emx.UUCP>, mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Donald A Kassebaum) writes:
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> 9) Don't hesitate to modify your default colors to improve the looks
> of text.  The default colors are pretty poor in this regard.  On a
> Commodore monitor, many people prefer dark chars on light background.
> Also, substituting a sans serif font for Topaz helps out 80 column
> text considerably.  Use 'FF' to do the substitution.  Some example
> fonts: clean, pearl.

    Over the past few months, I have seen several references to the pearl font.
    Some saying that pearl 11 is great for interlace screens.  Where does one
    find this font.  It's not on any of the workbenches I've seen. Is it PD?
    or from the original commercial FastFonts?  Any insight (or Email gift)
    would be greatly appreciated.

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	Steven Cobb

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