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Subject:Re: Font fondling - a practical application From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:19:51 -0400
Finding an appropriate font for print and on-screen output that is
unambigious is not easy. At one time we were printing docs on a
daisy-wheel machine in Courier. We used Courier because that was what we
used. Lower-case ELL and numeral ONE were identical. Crucial
distinctions were difficult to manage.
With my trusty Swiss Army Implement I manufactured some specially carved
wheels on which the two characters were different.
Now in the modern on-screen age the problems are similar, but reliable
hand-carving of fonts is a bit more difficult. Gutenberg and his fellow
typographers had it easier.
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