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Your options are limited. Warm fuzziness in document design derives from
more than just font choice (although, to be sure, font choice plays a
significant part). However you have some factors that mitigate against
you:
1. You are delivering documents in Word. That means that any fonts you
choose must be on the end user's machine. This limits you to the
standard fonts that are installed by default with Windows and Office.
2. It also means that you are limited in your typographic controls,
because Word is hard to wrestle to the ground when you want to override
its default composition parameters. At its best, Word is a few rungs
below mediocre as a typographic engine.
3. I would surmise (based, perhaps unfairly, on your inaccurate spelling
and naming of fonts) that you are a novice when it comes to typographic
design. Therefore, you are not going to know what else to do with your
pages aside from swapping out the fonts.
That said, try this as a first cut: Use Garamond for everything--text,
headings, and page headers and footers. Open up the line spacing a bit
on your body type (maybe 1.3 lines). See if those changes get the client
to back off. If not, call in a professional.
Dick
Virginia Kathleen Eaton wrote:
>
> I have a quick question. 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.
>
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