RE: Font fondling - a practical application

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Manufacturing Font-sense...?     Badump-bump-tsssshh!

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> l.com] On Behalf Of Peter Neilson
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 14:20
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> Subject: Re: Font fondling - a practical application
> 
> Finding an appropriate font for print and on-screen output that is
> unambigious is not easy. At one time we were printing docs on a
> daisy-wheel machine in Courier. We used Courier because that was what
we
> used. Lower-case ELL and numeral ONE were identical. Crucial
> distinctions were difficult to manage.
> 
> With my trusty Swiss Army Implement I manufactured some specially
carved
> wheels on which the two characters were different.
> 
> Now in the modern on-screen age the problems are similar, but reliable
> hand-carving of fonts is a bit more difficult. Gutenberg and his
fellow
> typographers had it easier.

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