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Subject:Font Peeves From:Barry House <bhouse -at- CREATIVE-HOUSE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:31:02 -0600
Chuck Martin wrote:
>Times (and its related ilk): whoever thought of using a font designed to
>withstand the rigors of high-speed printing on poor quality paper and
>still be readable while taking up minimal space for top-quality business
>correspondence ought to be sentenced to forever reading every document
>they ever see in 6-point Times.
>
I learn something every day I read this list. If Times is a bad font for
business correspondence, what's a preferred font?
What about body copy for a manual--what fonts are preferred there?
Barry House
The Creative House--Helping Businesses Communicate
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Pittsfield, IL 62363
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