Hmm.. this was in my 'sent' folder from yesterday, but it looks like
it never got posted ...
zare wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:27:54 GMT, Caecilius <nosuch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I've been using CG Omega to write my re****ts in MS Word for about
ten years
>> now, and I'm looking for a better alternative for both on screen
and HP
>> laser printer.
>>
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> Maybe it is offtopic, but I am curious about CG Omega font. In fact,
> was it originally Casady & Greene font design?
>
> TIA, Zare
>
No. The CG has no more to do with Casady & Greene than it does with
Curious George. As Cęcilius said, the DESIGN is by Herman Zapf, and
was originally called Optima. THe CG prefix is registered to Agfa and
stands for Compugraphic.
Hewlett-Packard supplied a number of fonts with their early Laser
Printers, with matching printer-resident and pc-resident versions.
These included CG Omega and CG Times, both produced by Elseware. There
was some relation****p between Miles Inc. and Elseware, and Agfa became
a subsidiary of Miles, so ...
There's a discussion of the *****uous cannabilistic world of fonts,
as it applies to HP, Miles, Agfa, Monotype, et al here:
http://tinyurl.com/4bww5c
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