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Subject:Re: Manual non-standard font question From:Suzanne Townsend <ac158 -at- CHEBUCTO -dot- NS -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:14:33 -0400
Tom Herme wrote:
... I have a 300 page manual [in which] 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.
Right you are, Tom. Brush Script and similar fonts are called "display
fonts" for a reason. Repeated use of a display font is visual noise, and
inappropriate for body text. You could probably sneak it in on the title
page.
