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Virginia Kathleen Eaton asks quickly:
>A client has just informed our group that the
>template designed for his suite of documents isn't warm and fuzzy enough
>for his end users (I am not kidding). He has objections to Ariel, New
>Times Roman, Helvetica, and Garamond. I checked in the archives and
>couldn't find any references to warm fonts. :) Does anyone have any
>ideas/suggestions? The final delivery will be in Word 97 and PDF formats.
This should be a Dilbert cartoon. Are you sure it isn't?
There's an article on the iCE.org that references "new fonts" and "warm
fuzzy" on the same page, if not in the same breath: http://www.ice.org/fullGallery.php?year=2000&month=8
and I did find some warm fuzzy fonts for you, but I bet your customer will
take one look at them and run screaming back to the cold serifness of Times
Roman: http://www.mikeboles.com/adult.htm
Of course, that might not be a bad thing. <g>
Jane Carnall
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