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David: Where did you hear that Royal fonts "have provisions for defining size-specific features"? I remember hearing something similar a while back, but when I asked several people, including two of the guys coordinating the digitalization of the URW font library as well as the president of Monotype, everyone said that b-spline quadratics are just a different way of producing digital type -inherently no better than the bezier curves than Adobe's PostScript fonts use. As an ad typographer, optical scaling of fonts is an important concern when looking at the PostScript typefaces. Most faces I've seen are digitized to look best at text sizes. Several of the faces I've used just don't look right in large point sizes. An electronic way to optically scale the type would be a big plus in our minds or, failing that, font companies should offer two printer outlines (one for text sizes, one for display). I keep looking back through various magazines to find the reference I saw concerning the Royal fonts, but can't seem to locate it. Any ideas? –jon