lemon@adobe.com (David Lemon) (03/06/91)
Direct mail reply bounced, so everyone gets to read this: In comp.fonts article 1612 Charles Allen asks about the figures in Tekton, which have varying widths. Although it's gratifying that Tekton has found such a wide range of uses, it was conceived and designed for display purposes, not text use, as indicated in the specimen book that comes with it. For display use we generally provide nontabular figures, which look better because they are more evenly spaced. That is, figures with matching widths are a recent phenomenon typographically speaking. While they work nicely in columns they are lousy mixed with alphabetic characters. They are necessary in fonts that may be used for setting tables, but not otherwise. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but every font is best suited to particular purposes, and Tekton does best in larger sizes and smaller word counts. I wouldn't recommend it for financial reports or mathematical papers. - David Lemon Free advice, and worth every penny
nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) (03/06/91)
Thanks for the information. In fact, the intended use was for CAD drawings. These often have a short table of parts, which is precisely where we need uniform number widths. Since you folks have used an architectural drawing in your Tekton advertisements, it seemed reasonable to expect Tekton to work well in a CAD environment. Oh well, back to Palatino and Helvetica.... Charles Allen Internet: cca@physics.purdue.edu Department of Physics HEPnet: purdnu::allen, fnal::cca Purdue University Bitnet: cca@fnal.bitnet 1396 Physics Building West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396 talknet: 317/494-9776