mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) (11/22/85)
First off, Chuck Bigelow and the other folks who designed Lucida are ANYTHING but amateurs!!! He worked with Knuth at Stanford, for instance, on digital type design. As for the Macworld article, the pictures are poor reproductions - I have seen the original slides in his EUUG talk in Copenhagen and when reproduced well (direct slide viewing, not with ink on paper via plates made from the slides) Pellucida is gorgeous. It does indeed have jaggies - but it is incredibly READABLE!!! Lucida on laser output looks even better. A serious problem with the LaserWriter is that the Mac screen fonts for Times and Helvetica are AWFUL, not to mention that the T&H fonts themselves aren't exactly perfect on an output page. If I could buy Lucida and Pellucida together I would in a moment. This way I could have a font I can read on the screen and the Imagewriter, as well as one which will look the same, only smoother, on the LaserWriter. If you EVER get a chance to hear Chuck speak, beg, borrow, or steal to take advantage of it. -Mike O'Dell