Font replacement for Optima

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Font replacement for Optima

My Mac died a year ago and alot of my photoshop files have the Optima font used in them. I am having a hard time finding a suitable font replacement on the PC.

Can anyone suggest a replacement? I would prefer to have Optima on the PC, but its seems impossable.

AMD Sempron 3400+ 1.99 GHz 1GB RAM Windows XP I really miss my Mac...

Posted on May 30, 2007 9:00 PM

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Answer 1

May 31, 2007 8:26 AM in response to SiStaB

"but its seems impossable."

No it isnt:

http://www.linotype.com/1305/optima-family.html

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Answer 2

leghorn

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Jun 1, 2007 10:23 AM in response to Templeton Peck

Have you tried www.identifont.com ?

http://www.identifont.com/find?font=optima&q=Go

It helps to find fonts by letters, similar fonts by names, etc.

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SiStaB Author

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Jun 4, 2007 10:11 AM in response to SiStaB

I have been to these sites already (Googled for font replacement), and I can't afford to purchase fonts at this time. Is there a font I might already have installed that is a good replacement? Windows doesn't really have a way to preview fonts like the Mac does with it's "font book".

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SiStaB Author

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Jun 4, 2007 11:22 AM in response to SiStaB

I have been to these sites already (Googled for font
replacement), and I can't afford to purchase fonts at
this time. Is there a font I might already have
installed that is a good replacement? Windows doesn't
really have a way to preview fonts like the Mac does
with it's "font book".

I decided to look for a "font manager" for Windows and found The Font Thing at Downloads.com. This is not as pretty as Mac's font book, but it did the trick.

I have found that "CG Omega" is a suitable substitution for Optima. It is an HP font.

AMD Sempron 3400+, 1.99 GHz, 1GB RAM Windows XP Dual HD's, Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109, CD-RW/DVD-ROM

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