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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Looking for a Font
- Message-ID: <835@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 20:09:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.220804.17209@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Geoff Brunkhorst writes
- > Anybody seen a NeXT compatible version of
- >
- > Optima-Medium
- >
- > Adobe/RightBrain has Optima and Optima-Bold, but I cannot locate a Mac, PC
- > or unix font vendor that has Optima-Medium. My intuition tells me that
- > it is one of those 'exists only on "blah"-compatible typesetting systems'.
-
- "Optima" is Optima Medium. That's the only weight there is besides
- Bold. The naming convention somewhere along the way was to drop the
- "Medium", as in "Helvetica", "Palatino", and so forth, all of which
- are Medium weights.
-
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