From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 23:57:49 PDT
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:27:41 -0600, Grant Hutchinson wrote:
>> It probably is Lucida Grande, as that seems to be Apple's new favorite.
>
> Yeah, it's close but no cigar. If you compare Lucida Grande with the
> characters on the new keyboard, you'll find that elements such as the
> tail of the capital 'Q' are different. In Lucida the tail drops out from
> the right bottom curve without crossing the counter, and on the keyboard
> the tail is a straight line the crosses the counter. Likewise, the
> upstroke of the capital 'G' has a horizontal ear on the keyboard, Lucida
> Grande doesn't. The Lucida Grande 'J' drops below the baseline, but the
> keyboard 'J' doesn't. The capital 'M' on the keyboard has inclined sides,
> whereas Lucida Grande's are vertical. And so on...
So, does the Pismo use this font on its keyboard? What you are
describing looks like my keyboard. Yet, the Univers on the page you
linked looks more like my keyboard, with the straight sides on the
"rounded" letters (Q,O, et al). Strange...
>> Although it probably is customized in some way, like the Apple Garamond
>> is an 80% compressed Garamond font (don't recall which, however.)
>
> In fact, the version of Garamond that Apple used was not a compressed
> version of some regular weight, but in fact a slightly condensed and
> custom redrawn version of ITC Garamond created specifically for Apple by
> Bitstream Inc. By the way, the condensed and italicized face used on
> previous Apple keyboards is Univers Condensed Light Oblique.
ITC Garamond. That's what it was. Thanks. I also love talking fonts. :-
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