adobe serif

Tiff, how can one get a look at what that default font looks like?

- Mike Yanega

That’d explain the wonky proportions, that a is just fat.

Mike, I would think the only way to know is to peek inside the PDF. Other than that I don’t know. Wish I knew.

Search for Adobe Serif MM then open it in Fontlab. It is a resource for Acrobat, InDesign etc.

Acrobat tries to match the weight and proportions of the missing font, then modifies either Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif to match as near as possible. So, what it looks like it’s simulating is a very light serif font with an unusually narrow S and T and wide lowercase letters. My guess would be ITC Serif Gothic Extra Light.

Yes, that’s what I ended up doing, using Fontographer. It seems that the answer is right,although wouldn’t you say that condensed and normal letters are mixed in the sample?

- Mike Yanega

OK, Mark’s explanation probably accounts for what I was talking about in my cross-post.

- Mike Yanega

Thanks all. I always seem to pick the complicated ones!