richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (05/07/88)
Does anybody know what the font is in National Geographic to caption the photographs, the italic one ? -- noalias went. it really wasn't negotiable richard@gryphon.CTS.COM rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard
mills@adobe.COM (Dan Mills) (05/08/88)
In article <3875@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >Does anybody know what the font is in National Geographic to >caption the photographs, the italic one ? I don't know its name, or even if it has one, but I do know that Matthew Carter designed it specially for the National Geographic. NG is well aware that most people only look at the pictures and read the captions, so they decided to have Carter design them an especially legible--readable in fact--italic face for use in the captions. It was originally done for Linotype equipment (at the time Carter either worked for Linotype or had some kind of exclusive consulting agreement). NG may have exclusive rights to use the face. Check Linotype's specimen book, or call them up, or ask Carter. He's now V.P. of Design (or something like that) at Bitstream in Cambridge MA. - Dan Mills {decwrl,sun}!adobe!mills