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Subject:Re: fonts and presentations From:Bernd Hutschenreuther <Bernd -dot- Hutschenreuther -at- PREPRESS -dot- DE> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:30:34 +0200
Greetings!
Hi, Beth,
You wrote
>Okay, I've searched the archives, and I've found a lot of information
>about fonts in printed documents and fonts in on-line help files.
There is a very beautiful sans serife font named "Optima". It is similar to
Palatino, but has no serifes. It looks nice as well on the screen as on 600
dpi printer. Like Palatino, it does not look good on documents printed with
only 300 dpi.
Optima has also italic, bold, and bold-italic style.
