Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!bruce
From: bruce@trigraph.UUCP (Bruce Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Not everyone uses Times Roman
Message-ID: <461@trigraph.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 17:12:28 GMT
Reply-To: bruce@trigraph.UUCP (Bruce Freeman)
Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Although it may look like everyone uses Times they actually use Helvetica! I
work at a typesetting company and so would like to add some statistics to
the debate over what typefaces people use. The following is a list of the top
20 fonts used over the past year at my company:

Helvetica Medium
Times Roman
Helvetica Medium Condensed
News Gothic Regular
Helvetica Bold
Garamond Light
Helvetica Light
Palatino
Meridien
Baskerville
Helvetica Heavy
Trump Medieval
Bembo
Helvetica Bold Condensed
Helvetica Medium Italic
Century Old Style
Helvetica Light Condensed
Century Schoolbook
Univers Medium
Aster

This list is based on the number of characters set in each font. We do
everything from textbooks, novels, reports, catalogues, ads, you name it
so the above is a fairly good cross section of what faces people use. By the way
nearly twice as many characters were set in Helvetica Medium compared to Times
Roman. It would appear that those who don't use Helvetica use Times though :-)
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Bruce Freeman	Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada		utzoo!trigraph!bruce