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Re: Times Roman 'N' Helvetica (formerly SGML, etc.)
Subject:Re: Times Roman 'N' Helvetica (formerly SGML, etc.) From:Michael McClatchey <mmm -at- AISINC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 Nov 1993 08:09:56 -0500
I, too, think font choice is significant. When I started here, the
documentation was set in Palatino for body text and Helvetica (bold) for
headers. After floundering around for a while (there was a lot of junk set in
whatever) we had a designer/typographer set up specs for the Univers font
family: Light, Regular, Bold, Black and Extra Black, and the Extended
variation.
The maintenance cost has been a little higher than we planned, as we had to buy
the fonts for Suns, a NeXT, and PCs, but the improvement in "look" and
readibility has been worth it, as far as I'm concerned. I personally would have
gone with the Stone family and used serif and sans serif both, but, hey, what
do I know...
Michael McClatchey mmm -at- aisinc -dot- com
Marketing Communications
Applied Intelligent Systems, Inc. (opinions expressed are not necessarily
110 Parkland Plaza those of my employer)
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