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Subject:Re: Manual non-standard font question From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:51:00 -0800
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From: Tom Herme
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.
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Using a special font -- especially something as gaudy as BrushScript --
within body text would make the product name instances stand out like a
bunch of zits. Maybe you should remind your marketing manager that your
manual isn't trying to sell a product -- the customer's already bought
it -- so what's the point?
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
