Re: Pathetic fonts

Phillip Driscoll wrote:

>
> Je vendredo, la 9a de novembro 2001, je 9:03 atm, David Starner skribis:
> >
> >. . . (Of course, maybe the fact that all existing Deseret fonts are
> >truly pathetic had something to do with that.) :-(
>
> My candidate for the script which seems to have only pathetic fonts
> available is Cherokee. Hermann Zapf designed a really nice font for
> the University of Wisconsin about thirty years ago, but I don't believe
> it was ever used, and it's not available as a digital font.

There was a time, before the electronic ripoff was invented, when all
fonts were proprietary.

The only way you could use the New Yorker font was to buy the metal from
the founder (and they weren't selling).
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...