On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:38:51 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> He said strange things that suggested this is not the best book about
> type one could imagine.

Interesting! Thanks. Perhaps it's equivalent to Fletcher Pratt's _Secret
And Urgent_, a book about cryptography. It whetted interest in the field,
but apparently was a poor reference. David Kahn's _The Codebreakers_ was
much better, I'm almost sure.

Regarding Georgia, I dearly wish that it were the first choice for Web
pages that apparently default to Times New Roman, an awful screen font at
the default size. TNR might have been OK when a typical screen was 640 x
400, but at 1280 x 1024 it's ... well ... grim. (1600 x 1200 is almost
useless for text; its default size is just too small, at least for
75-year-old eyes.)

Btw, it seems to me that changing size in Verdana is equivalent to
changing among bitmapped fonts; this is not to denigrate all the work that
was done on it.

However, I don't want to pull the thread too far off-topic!

I'd welcome suggestions for a mailing list primarily concerned with
typography.

Best regards to all,

--
Nicholas Bodley _.=|*|=._ Waltham, Mass.