Just one thought on what Charles said-

Quote Originally Posted by Charles Moir View Post
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b) Synthesized fonts are fake. They are artificial, computer generated, and if you're a font designer, they are an aberration, a distortion of the font designers art. As graphic artists you should respect that.

c) The industry standard uses the same rules - to disallow fake, synthesized fonts. Adobe set the precedent, some say define, the rules in this respect. We try to work with, not against industry standards.
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I'm no expert on the area, but wasn't it Adobe who created Multiple Master fonts, which offered the capability to synthesize any font variant along multiple "axes" including weight and slant? If synthetic fonts are an aberration, presumably MM fonts are the work of Satan?