Re: Manual non-standard font question

[Jane Bergen <janeber -at- CYBERRAMP -dot- NET>]

Sounds like a marketing manager......

Tell him or her no way. It's cheesy-looking and outdated. They did it when
True Type fonts first came out and everyone had to try all the weird fonts,
just because they could....

Script is very hard to read and does not reproduce well. I don't know what
kind of production method you use, but it's definitely worth investigating.
You could *almost* get by with it, if the font were a trademarked logo, but
Brush Script isn't special.

Good luck,

Jane Bergen
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AnswerSoft, Inc.    Richardson, TX
(972) 997-8355
janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com (work)
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At 06:49 PM 1/19/98 -0800, Tom Herme wrote:
>I have a question for all of you. I have a 300 page manual that uses a
common serif
>font, twelve point for body text and headings. The product name includes
32 at the end,
>for example, "Software32" to distinguish it from our older DOS product. I
include a
>non-breaking space between "Software" and "32".
>
>My marketing manager wants to format every instance of the product name in
Brush Script
>and give a superscript appearance to the 32.
>
>I question the readability of this since every page may have multiple
instances of the
>product name. I think that readers may become distracted by this.
>
>I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Please reply on the list.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Tom Herme
>mailto://therme -at- nvbell -dot- net