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Garfie

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Jul 26, 2001, 12:59:50 AM7/26/01
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Just wondering if it is possible to get the font which the magazine
'The Economist' uses. It may be called EcoFont, but I'm not sure.

Thanks
Garth

Richard J Kinch

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Jul 27, 2001, 9:44:30 PM7/27/01
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Garfie writes:

>Just wondering if it is possible to get the font which the magazine
>'The Economist' uses. It may be called EcoFont, but I'm not sure.

I recall that they commissioned their own font design as part of a style
makeover sometime in the early 90s. Surely it has been licensed or cloned
as software.

Ken Elgart

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Jul 28, 2001, 12:49:08 PM7/28/01
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:44:30 -0400, Richard J Kinch wrote
(in message <90EBD0033so...@216.227.56.89>):

It's listed in my old (1994) Monotype catalog as "The Economist", package
9540. The package has 3 weights: regular, demi and bold with the
corresponding italics as well as small caps. I just checked their web page
and they still show it.

Mark P. Fishman

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Aug 10, 2001, 8:48:41 AM8/10/01
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Back when there was a Monotype, their locked "FoneFont" CD
included a font family called "Economist". This looks very like
(possibly identical to) the font used for body copy in The
Economist. It's a Type 1 font.

I like the font, and bought it via unlock code. My one
disappointment is that the AFM file was generated without
kerning pairs. There is a supplied PFM with kerning info for
MS-Windows users.

Perhaps Agfa-Monotype still sell this font.

Cheers -- Mark F.

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