From @uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Sep 24 11:03:14 1992 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 24 Sep 1992 11:03:13 -0400 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8646; Thu, 24 Sep 92 11:01:57 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) id 0047; Thu, 24 Sep 92 11:01:56 EDT Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 10:01:19 -0500 Reply-To: dmb@PALM.CRAY.COM Sender: Lojban list From: dmb@PALM.CRAY.COM Subject: Typography X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: I agree that Veijo's demo sheet looks pretty good, but that's not all that surprising since Knuth designed the Computer Modern fonts to harmonize with each other. Actually since the CM fonts were based on Monotype 8 or some such, perhaps the credit should go to Monotype's designer. In any case, a few comments are in order. Real Courier seems to be a bit less bold than cmtt while CourierBold is even bolder than cmtt. It's more difficult to compare real Helvetica with the cmss that Veijo used. They seem to be about equal in blackness, though there are some differences in letter shapes. I seem to recall that there are some height differences between Times and Helvetica of the same point size, so interline spacing might differ between lines containing Helvetica mixed with Times and lines that are pure Times. Of course, even sticking with the standard PostScript fonts one could use AvantGuard instead of Helvetica or Bookman or NewCentury Schoolbook instead of Times. I believe that Courier is the only monospaced font in the standard collection. My only complaint in this whole discussion is the inability to distinguish between a capital I and a lower case l in the sans-serif fonts. This used to drive me wild in the original Loglan books, but is less of a problem here, since Lojban has adopted the convention of using a lower case i to start sentences. Dave Bowen