#DTP gone bad!
Wait a Minute! Tripp, if "most" dtpers can't tell Garamond from Times and
couldn't care less, who the heck is buying all these fonts? Maybe they
don't complain about the "cut" of faces, like Kathleen or I might, but if
they're buying something that isn't built into their printer they are
definitely seeking something, and that something is a "look". It seems to
me that there are a lot of people who've first been introduced to type
aesthetics via dtp and are willingly educating themselves about these kinds
of issues. What kind of work is it you do that you don't care how your type
looks? And if you don't care, do you do all your documents in Courier?
Granted there are issues beyond the purely aesthetic, but aesthetics are
the first determining factor, if you ask me. For most jobs, you have in
mind a certain kind of face you are looking for. You decide which face(s)
best matches what you seek. Then you see which vendors offer that face or
something close to it, and then you seek out other things, such as is it
Type 1, is it hinted, how fast will it output, depending on what kind of
work you are doing (are you a service bureau or a designer, going low-res
or high).