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- From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
- Subject: Re: Looking for a Font
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.125736.11703@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
- References: <835@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 12:57:36 GMT
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- In article <835@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- writes:
- > Geoff Brunkhorst writes
- > > Anybody seen a NeXT compatible version of
- > > Optima-Medium
- > "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"...
-
- Well, my communications "Standards Police" beg to differ. They
- refer to 3 font weights (pardon me if this is inappropriate use of the term)
- for our "approved" publications (For those of you in small companies, beware
- the day your company has 'standards'.... Mayo has a 40 page document on
- "Institutional Identity," which specifies to the point (typesetter's point)
- how I am to identify Mayo to the world).
-
- I refrain from rich text which would clearly show the difference
- (and since Optima is not a common font...)
-
- Optima Medium: Mayo 'signature font' (the word 'mayo' above
- our three shield logo), and the main
- line of all letterhead and brochures
- (this would be "Mayo Foundation", "Mayo Clinic"
- or "Mayo Graduate School of Medicine")
- Optima: for secondary letterhead text, and for body of text
- (Such as "Rochester Minnesota, 55905")
- Optima-Oblique: for departmental/personal identification on letterhead
- (such as "Research Computing Facility")
-
- I have generated font samples for comparison, and can match Adobe's Optima
- to what is optima on my letterhead, but cannot match either Optima or
- Optima-Bold to what Mayo's printer calls Optima-Medium. I have called
- Adobe, and they themselves have a fontographers guide, and it specifically
- states there is a Optima-medium (separate from Optima). I then called
- RightBrain (Glen, you have really good people working with you !)
- who concurred with that assessment, and then suggested calling a company in
- Germany, whose phone number has apparently changed.
-
- A reasonable suggestion is to scan in and raytrace with Adobe Illustrator.
- I don't have that package (All mayo's artwork people use Mac Illustrator and
- can't ray trace), and I have over twenty different sets of text to develop.
- I'm not sure TextArt will do any thing for me, as I need to make each letter a
- hair 'fatter', without destroying the proportions. And no, I am not going to
- reinvent the font with Fontographer.
-
- The search goes on
-
- disclaimer: I'm sure Optima is a trademark of somebody, I just don't have the
- box now to tell you who...
-
- - Geoff
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
- Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805
- Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA fax (507) 284-5231
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