jwhiting@cdp.UUCP (12/29/90)
I'm putting together some type sample pages. Besides a fountain of tthe character set, 34-30 points, I'm aldso going to do a sample of body text. Some time agaoio, I remember people talking about fun phrases that usee the whole alphabet (besides The quick brown fox...) as well as some words used to check letter spacing and kerning (one was something like hamburger HAMUVV????). thanks in advance, jwhiting cdp!jwhiting@labr4eaeea.stanford.edu
kenw@arcsun.calarc.ARC.AB.CA (Ken Wallewein) (12/31/90)
>... > Some time agaoio, I remember people talking about fun phrases that >... I didn't see that. But here are a few full-alphabet phases, and a tongue-twister I kinda like. Pack my box with five dozen liqour jugs. How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. Waltz, numph, for quick jigs vex Bud. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick. /kenw
lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (01/05/91)
jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes: >I'm putting together some type sample pages. [...] >phrases that use the whole alphabet Not sure what you're doing this for, but the important thing about font samples is usually that they help people to select a font for `normal' text uses, so a paragraph of text in a couple of sizes, or in a normal book size of between 10 and 12 point, is essential. I once used the following sentence (that I probably made up at the time): ``Excellence in Typography is achieved at the expense of labour and artistry; for who but an artist would be fool enough to become a typographer?'' The phrase `Excellence in Typography' is favoured by type designers because it contains some important (i.e. both frequent and visible) letter combinations. It might be helpful to show various \&\fBweights\fP and \&\fIstyles\fP set on the same baseline (if you'll excuse the troff). If it's for beginners or the dreaded `dtp neophytes' :-), you might like to show some combinations of type, so as to discourage mixing Helvetica, Times Roman and Courier all in the same text, amongst other common errors. Lee -- Liam R. E. Quin, lee@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, +1 (416) 963-8337