[HN Gopher] Typeface Descriptions and Histories (2006)
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       Typeface Descriptions and Histories (2006)
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-05-29 13:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ggjfuhfjbg wrote:
       | It's a bit remiss of the author not to mention that Book Antiqua
       | is a clone of Palatino.
        
         | dhosek wrote:
         | The descriptions are taken from the font files. Book Antiqua,
         | Century Gothic, Arial, New Century Schoolbook, Bookman Antiqua,
         | Times New Roman were designed to be drop-in replacements for
         | the "Laserwriter 35" fonts from Adobe/Linotype that had become
         | ubiquitous in 90s typography. The Microsoft-Monotype deal was
         | one that the Monotype people were justifiably ashamed of, but
         | also kept the company from bankruptcy. Ironically, in the
         | twenty-first century, an era of consolidation unified longtime
         | rivals Monotype and Linotype (along with Agfa and ITC) into a
         | single entity.
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         | The most interesting of the faces of this project, to my mind,
         | is Century Gothic. It takes Twentieth Century (itself a knock-
         | off of Futura), and modifies it to fit the dimensions of Avant-
         | Garde and ends up with a design that's neither Futura nor
         | Avant-Garde but its own thing.
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | Microsoft Wingdings -- seems to have more than one meaning ....
        
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