The folks over at LinoType.com have just graciously released two excellent typefaces and made them available for free to celebrate the re-launch of their website. The site has a few stylistic changes and all in all browsing is a pleasant experience, though I can’t exactly say I’m a long term lurker on their site.
They have made available a 5-computer license for two fonts that go well together – Trump Mediaeval Italic as a heading font and Neuzeit Office as a body font.
I tried them out in Word 2007, but I haven’t tried them out in any other graphics software yet. Also available is a web font version which I also haven’t tried. I put together a little sample and was going to see how it rendered as a PDF (from Word) when I noticed quite a difference:
On the left is the document in Word 2007. On the right is the exact same file converted to a PDF using Standard optimization. The difference in weight may only be an optical illusion, but the difference in size is quite noticeable. Since this is a screenshot of the document it may not appear as crisp as it does when viewed in Word (I’ve always wondered about that… I guess printing is the only way to tell for sure) but I did find Neuzeit Office to be extremely clear and crisp.
Do you know about the difference in rendering between Word and its PDF generator? Are you able to duplicate results like this? Leave me a comment below and tell me how you did it.
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