Good fonts for faxes

Xose Manoel Ramos

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Apr 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/4/00

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Huh!

I would like having some good advices in choosing the printing fonts
for documents that have to be faxed somewhere else. As far as I know
most of the fax machines have a very poor quality and quite often the
document becomes unreadable.

Any good tip or strategy to avoid this?

I think it helps using big font sizes, sans serif fonts, ...

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Louis Vosloo

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Apr 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/4/00

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Lucida Console
Lucida Fax
Lucida Sans

Xose Manoel Ramos wrote:

> I would like having some good advices in choosing the printing fonts
> for documents that have to be faxed somewhere else. As far as I know
> most of the fax machines have a very poor quality and quite often the
> document becomes unreadable.
>
> Any good tip or strategy to avoid this?
>
> I think it helps using big font sizes, sans serif fonts, ...

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tobias b koehler

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Apr 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/4/00

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On 4 Apr 2000 09:30:27 GMT, Xose Manoel Ramos <xma...@comports.com> wrote in comp.fonts:

> I would like having some good advices in choosing the printing fonts
> for documents that have to be faxed somewhere else. As far as I know
> most of the fax machines have a very poor quality and quite often the
> document becomes unreadable.

The best idea is not to print it and then fax it, but generate the fax
directly from the computer .... scanned prints are always worse than
nicely hinted fonts of the same resolution (and yes, for those Lucida
are a good choice).

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Aaron Priven

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Apr 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/4/00

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There is a typeface called Lucida Fax (it comes with MS Office, I
believe) that is designed for this purpose.

The best thing is usually to use a very well hinted font (that is, a
font that has been tweaked by its designer to look good at small
sizes, such as on screen) and then use a faxmodem to output directly
from the computer rather than printing it out and faxing it that way.

Any type that looks good on screen would be good for faxing.
Microsoft puts a lot of typefaces in with Office, and some of those
are available free on the Microsoft web page -- these are very well
hinted (by Monotype, I believe) and would be good for faxes.

Of course, the whole faxing concept is so 1980s...

In article <slrn8ejd8k...@perolo.org>,
xma...@comports.com wrote:
>Huh!

>
>I would like having some good advices in choosing the printing fonts
>for documents that have to be faxed somewhere else. As far as I know
>most of the fax machines have a very poor quality and quite often the
>document becomes unreadable.
>

>Any good tip or strategy to avoid this?
>
>I think it helps using big font sizes, sans serif fonts, ...
>
>--

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>/\(_)_\(/_ xma...@i.am
> http://i.am/xmanoel/
>
>04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
>04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)

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Armadilllo

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00

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I've used Meta in my faxes. It has lower case figures (non-lining, old
style) and they keep the legibitily far better than upper case figures
(lining).

Jukka

Xose Manoel Ramos

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00

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>I've used Meta in my faxes. It has lower case figures (non-lining, old
>style) and they keep the legibitily far better than upper case figures
>(lining).

Now comes the question...

Where I can get that font? I feel curious to see how it looks like.

Armadilllo

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Apr 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/6/00

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www.fontshop.com

Jukka

tobias b koehler

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Apr 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/7/00

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On 5 Apr 2000 10:14:56 GMT, Xose Manoel Ramos <xma...@comports.com> wrote in comp.fonts:

>>I've used Meta in my faxes. It has lower case figures (non-lining, old
>>style) and they keep the legibitily far better than upper case figures
>>(lining).

> Where I can get that font? I feel curious to see how it looks like.

http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11025/meta11025.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11026/meta11026.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11081/meta11081.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11082/meta11082.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11089/meta11089.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/meta11090/meta11090.html
http://www.fontfont.de/packages/metac11052/metac11052.html

It's actually pretty common nowadays, if you look closely. :)

With unicode character sets they could avoid having to offer
separate fonts for western, central european and turkish .... hmm.
Of course if people have to buy a different font for the case of
occasional Turkish words, those selling the fonts can earn more. ;)