Thanks, Guy. Yeah - me, too. Maybe it's because they only sent out the "preliminary" branding stuff, with the final due out in April. I did ask my upline (who told me to send him the purchase info whenever I find it), jumped to another branch and went up that line, too, but no answers so far. We run into issues like this a lot, but I think it's just because we're a tiny little division of a huge international conglomerate that actually prohibits org charts. (Laugh..but I'm not kidding.) Stuff kind of just trickles down and filters through.
Often, however, they'll make very broad statements without a lot of specifics because their goal is to create a degree of uniformity without boxing in the different divisions and functions in ways that would inhibit their routine tasks. That might explain identifying a font family as a standard but going no further. Maybe I should just put this on the back burner for a few weeks, and when they start asking why things haven't changed yet, I'll finally be able to identify who has the answers. Or... maybe I should just let Windows Search do the walking through some of the huge network drives and see if I can sniff out some font files somewhere....! >:-} Rene "Guy K. Haas" <guy at hiskeyboard.com> wrote: Rene-- I'm surprised that The Powers That Be did not suggest/recommend/specify a source for the fonts they are mandating. Is there someone up-line you can ask? --Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley Rene Stephenson wrote: > Hi All, > > We've received new corporate branding from the "parent company" that ripples > into needing to update our FM templates with a new set of fonts. The branding > specifies Helvetica / Helvetica Neue for copy and Rotis Sans Serif for > headings. (I hear some groaning at the already-overused Helvetica...but the > edict was issued by the Powers That Be.) I'm seeing several websites from > which we could buy the fonts, but there are multiple options for purchase > that frankly require a deeper understanding of how fonts are handled than I > possess. Having never worked in typesetting, I feel like I'm doing a > freestyle stroke across the bay and hoping I don't sink.
