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From: johnsonr@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (R o d Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Stone fonts
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Date: 21 Feb 90 17:31:41 GMT
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Reply-To: johnsonr@thor.stolaf.edu (R o d Johnson)
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This is just a note to thank everyone who responded to my query about
the Stone fonts and Sumner Stone.  Most everybody told me that the
fonts were available from Adobe.  Many also said that Stone had been
Director of Typography at Adobe, although a couple implied that he may
have moved on from there.
 
Several people also told me about this article:

  "The Stone Family of Typefaces: New Voices for the Electronic Age"
  _Fine Print_, July 1988
      or
  _Fine Print on Type: The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and
   Typography_ (Bedford Arts, San Francisco, 1989)

I already had the latter version, which is what stimulated my interest
in these fonts in the first place.  The book is recommended, by the
way, for those with a serious interest in type design and typefounding
(but if that's you you probably already know about it); dabblers (like
me, for now) will find it intermittently interesting. The book came
with a Bedford Arts brochure, though, which included the an
announcement for the following:

  _On Stone: The History and Use of the Stone Family of Typefaces_
   Sumner Stone
   120pp.
   ISBN 0-938491-28-8
   Due April 15, 1990

This book purports to be a history of Stone, a detailed consideration
of its design, and a guide to type use for desktop publishing in
general, using Stone for examples of what to do and not to do.  If the
book is half as good as it's blurb suggests, it will be very useful.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out.


Rod Johnson - U Michigan Linguistics : Internet: rcj@um.cc.umich.edu
in exile in Minnesota                : Phone: (507) 645 9804