[comp.sys.mac] What is a REAL font?

jb28+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Barbose) (10/12/89)

Doug McDonald writes:
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Incidentally, what size IS Adobe's Times Roman intended for -
all the different sizes it prints out are just scaled versions of
what presumably originated as a copy of one particular size of
a genuine (metal) Times Roman font. The letters of real (metal)
fonts are usually shaped differently (not scaled versions of one
another), at least a little, for each font (size of type).
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Wowie!  Let's get retro......
Jeff

cl1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (C. Kenny Lin) (10/12/89)

If I remember correctly (from a graphics technology course
I took eons ago), a typeface is the look of a set of type,
a typeface family is variations (i.e. bold, italic, etc.)
on a typeface, and a font is a typeface at a particular
size.

No thanks to Apple for confusing the issue with their
menu structure.....

---Ken