[Openfontlibrary] Existential Font Question

[Liam R E Quin]

On Sat, 2007-24-02 at 00:42 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Pop quiz, hot shots:
> 
> Can we tell apart a font of practical use from fancy fonts used for
> artistic purposes?

Do you mean, is such a distinction meaningful?  If you mean that
anything functional is not artistic, that is surely a nonsense.
And any font can be used in an artistic way, no?  And if a
"fancy font" use used for artistic purposes than it has a use
and is practical.

Liam

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