Re(2): Font Selection Methodology

Subject: Re(2): Font Selection Methodology
From: "Andrew Broman" <broman -at- acm -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:34:30 -0700


>(BTW, Optima is not as has previosly been claimed, a sans-serif face. It is
one of a small numbre of intermediate
>faces that do not have real serifs, but whose strokes vary in thickness,
which is a feature or true serif faces.)

I find this statement rather perplexing. Doesn't "sans serif" mean, both
etymologically and conventionally, "without serif"? Zapf himself apparently
called it a "serifless roman type," and you agree, stating that it has no
serifs; doesn't that make it sans serif by definition? Are you suggesting
that there exists a category _between_ serif and sans serif typefaces?

Andrew Broman
broman -at- acm -dot- org




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