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Does anyone from you, cartographic publishing professionals, know
about fonts which are specially suitable for cartographic names and
labels?
 
It is my humble conclusion that there exists NO professional font for
sale which has been designed especially for cartographic use! Anyone to
proof the contrary? (the only I've found so far is the one designed and
owned by The National Geographic Society).
 
I am in the layout process for publishing maps in several scales and
sizes and I found, that the usual digital fonts (Times, Bodoni,
Universal, etc.) are either too fat or too meager and kerning is not
adapted to the special requirements of maps (background graphics, curved
and widened long names, etc.).
 
Any proposals?
 
Yours,
--- Stefan Keller, GIS specialist, Promotor of
    INTERLIS - the geodata modelling and zero-loss transfer language