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Subject:Is there a market for a dual-purpose font From:Mark Dempsey <mxd2 -at- OSI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:11:16 -0700
Like many pubs departments, we've been moving much of our printed matter
to online form. I assume that, like us, everyone involved in this
process hates to keep two sets of docs, one with sans serif font for
onscreen, and one with seriffed font for print.
A simple solution would be to have the body font in docs be one that
prints with a serif and appears onscreen sans serif.
(Does anyone know if there is such a thing?) In asking font foundaries,
I've found it's theoretically possible in Postscript Type 3 fonts, but
none of them wants to make the font on spec.
If there's not such a thing, how many pubs departments would be
interested in one if it existed? A custom font costs thousands of
dollars plus licensing. A commercially available font is much less
expensive. Perhaps some of you would like to search for fonts on Yahoo,
and ask some of the font foundaries to make such a font for you too.
Maybe we can stir them up so they'll make one...:-)
Regards,
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-- Mark Dempsey
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