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Actually a bastard font...
Authored by: Elander on Oct 07, '02 10:15:29AM

To a typographer the "Apple font" is actually a real example of desktop publishing at its worst...

It is simply the font "ITC Garamond" (Roman version) scaled to 70% width, thus totally distorting an already ugly typeface to make it virtually unusable to anyone (except Apple). I can remember when the option of scaling character widths first appeared in QuarkXPress (the first application on the Macintosh to support this "feature"), and it still makes me shudder.

Trivia:
In the beginning the scaling was done by cutting the text and pasting it to the Clipbook. When it was imported into PageMaker from the clipbook it could be placed as an image, thus making it possible to change the width/height ratio. Later it appeared as a real "font" (TrueType) called "Caramont" (copyright in typefaces only protects the name, not the letter shapes).



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Actually a bastard font...
Authored by: cpatch on Oct 07, '02 01:19:23PM

It may break the rules, but I've always liked it (and have used a scaled version of ITC Garamond in the past).

Craig



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