So now you ask why I went through all this. These are some of the reasons why some type looks professional, and some doesn't. They're all things to look out for if you want a really polished, professional finish to your projects. Particularly when imaging on high-resolution devices. There are many other points we could discuss.
Good fonts have thousands, all carefully hand placed.
Bad fonts have perhaps a few - but automatically placed by a stupid machine. Electronic font creation has also fostered some short cuts that have eroded the personalities of some fonts. If uniformity is the rule of that particular face, then that's the rule. Once again if we go back to the ortho-film master of the original Goudy, we discover that only a few of the serifs are identical. Most have been individually created, with their own subtle personalities, to work in harmony with it's parent character.