jwhiting@cdp.UUCP (12/29/90)
I'm making some font sample pages and wondered what _you_ would put on one if you had the chance. I remember reading a note on the nets about a pseudo-word sused to check letter spacing and kerning ~r: something that looked liek ke hamburger (HAMUV?????) Does this ring a bell? I've started with a simple type fountain (aplalphabet, 4-30 points) and want to include a sample of body text too. thanks, jwhiting cdp!jwhiting@labrea.stanford.edu
gls@odyssey.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (01/02/91)
In article <132600009@cdp>, jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes: > > I'm making some font sample pages and wondered what _you_ would put > on one if you had the chance. I remember reading a note on the nets > about a pseudo-word sused to check letter spacing and kerning ... In version 4 of the Buffalo Font Catalogue I mostly used extracts from _Alice in Wonderland_ and _Through the Looking-Glass._ (Even the chess font!) Usually any kind of text will do for samples. If you want to work the word "Hamburg" in, you could use a sentence like "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." A traditional test for _typewriters_ is amaranath [sic] sasesusos initiation orinoco secedes uruguay Philadelphia The "Philadelphia" tests the look of ascenders, descenders, and thick and thin letters mixed. But with sample pages it is more helpful to demonstrate the appearance of ordinary text, not pathological test cases. -:- "Not a dwarf hole with piles of dirt, gypsum, and dried snot lying around, nor a narc hole with obscene drawings in the vestibule and a cesspool in the middle of the living-room: it was a boggie hole, and that means all of the above." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman gls@odyssey.att.COM