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RE: You know you're an incurable tech writer when...
Subject:RE: You know you're an incurable tech writer when... From:"Totten, Alison" <Alison -dot- Totten -at- bankofamerica -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:44:16 -0500
They use Gill Sans in the UK. Or so I've been told.
Alison
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From: Chuck Martin [mailto:cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com]
<Pspubs -at- aol -dot- com> wrote in message news:224836 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
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> --you wonder what font size billboard letters are.
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I don't know about font size, but the very interesting book about type "Stop
Stealing Sheep" has a section about the font used on standard U.S.
interstate highway signs.
