Re: InkJet Text Fonts: Making Do

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Despite my embarassment at not knowing who Michael Scarpitti is, I enjoyed
reading Ben Haskell's two-part challenge for typographers and hope some
inkjet-printer trade association will offer prizes so tempting that many
typographers will respond.

In the meantime, I'd like to know what Ben and others who care are using
for lack of anything designed for inkjet use.

I used Adobe's Myriad a lot, sometimes with Adobe's Minion, although Minion
doesn't hold up as well. I might use both again because I have the
impression that the Adobe Sans and Serif faces used in Acrobat are derived
from Myriad and Minion and might therefore work better with them than with
alternatives to them. In fact, it's occured to me to try using Sans and
Serif themselves to see if that will keep Acrobat from messing with the
text at all. At least the price is right.

My current sans serif favorite is, however, Adobe's Cronos, which seems to
me an improvement on  Myriad. I often use Cronos with Adobe's Chaparral
although they seem an odd couple. Chaparral is one of the slab serifs Ben
thinks are, as a class, ugly. I disagree. And I like Chaparral for
correspondence and for extended text, although, if I hadn't wanted a
Multiple Master, I would have bought ITC Charter instead. And in Windows I
would try Verdana and Georgia - for free! - when the fully featured
families I prefer weren't needed.

Two text faces I'd like to try are Gerard Unger's newspaper face "Gulliver"
and Petr van Blokland's "Proforma", which he designed for computerized
forms systems (and The Font Bureau distributes). If anyone's tried either
of these I'd like to know the results. And, although I think Ben's right
about modern faces in general, I also think Adobe's Kepler might be made to
work well with the newest inkjets. Has anyone tried Kepler?

Sam
samcc@compuserve.com






  
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