Re: Font Needed

Subject: Re: Font Needed
From: AnnMacknz -at- AOL -dot- COM
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:10:49 -0400

John wrote:
>>I am looking for a PostScript type 1 font - for both Mac and PC - that is
monospaced and can be used to represent the typical screen font seen on
many ASCII terminals. Microsoft has a PC screen font called "Terminal", and
there is a Mac screen font called "VT-100". Both of these look great
on-screen at 10pt but neither seems to be available in PostScript format.
Courier/New Courier is frequently used for this purpose, but is a poor
representation.
Any ideas?>>

Courier may not look like the sans serif screen font, but to the reader it
seems to represent the screen text very well at about 7 or 8 point and with a
box drawn around it. I think that readers of text want a *representation* of
a screen, with mock data so they can compare it generally with what they see
on their screens.
Ann
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