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Subject:Review RE: KeyCaps style Fonts From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:11:00 -0800
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From: Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)
To: STORES - Pearson, Christopher
... would you please send me Key Normal, Key Extended, and KeyboardKeys?
I thought I'd done an exhaustive search, but I've never heard of them.
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Yet more cases of key fonts with problems. Chris sent me these and I
checked them out. Key Normal contains only alphanumeric keys, Key
Extended contains only the rest. I can't figure why they were separated
into separated fonts, but it doesn't matter: both are illegible at body
text size. As for Keyboard Keys, all four variations have the same
problem: some of the labels on the special keys are in lower case, some
are in uppercase, none are in initial cap as on a real keyboard!
Useless.
If anyone else wants the Keys font I mentioned in the previous message,
just ask. It's the best I've seen yet. Btw, it's TrueType.
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.)
