So, I’m reading my FontBook, as I do with my morning coffee, and I keep noticing certain fonts with an “office” weight, version, style &c.
What does it mean? To my eyes, and I’m only up to the Mm’s in the sans serif section, it looks like they sort of pseudo mono-space it and cross breed it with Courier.
Any thoughts?
If I were to make up something (which am doing) I’d say an Office weight would be a typeface with characteristics optimized for office reproduction systems, such as laser printers, photocopiers, and fax machines, at a typical correspondence size (10-12 pt).
This may or may not relate to any real world definition, but it should, because I say so.
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