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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Stan, > Here's what the editor of 'Technology Review' said about their change > in Jan. 2005. > Not the technical proof I'd hoped for. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Stan Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ann, I was a bit surprised by Mark's earlier comment that this attitude is >> more opinion than scientifically derived Truth, or words to that effect. I >> coulda' sworn that I had read a couple of articles on the topic in Human >> Factors or IEEE-SMC a few decades ago. I did a quick search, starting and >> ending with Wikipedia, and found that the apparent consensus is that there >> is no solid evidence one way or the other. >> >> stan >> >> On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 9/15/2011 15:03, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>>> John, >>>> Some years ago, 'Technology Review' changed fonts to Arial (I believe) >>>> and stopped hyphenating words, and left justified all columns instead >>>> of centering and padding lines to justify both left and right sides. >>>> I find this method more enjoyable and natural. MIT, who publishes the >>>> magazine, claimed it was technically better for the reader. >>>> Regards, Bob S. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:36 AM, John Coyle<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Interesting discussion: a journal I edit has just been criticised for >>>>> using a sans-serif >>>>> font (Arial 10-point) as body text. My reaction was that it's a >>>>> modern-looking, clean and >>>>> easy-to-read font . >>>>> Any comments? >>>>> >>>>> John Coyle >>>>> Brisbane, Australia >>> >>> I recently read something on line where the opinion was put forth that san >>> serif fonts were fine / nice to read on line but that erif font's were >>> easier to read in print - especially newsprint sized print. I tend >>> to agree. Of course, I can't read 10 point in print without pain anyway :-) >>> >>> ann >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>>> Paul Stenquist >>>>> Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:08 AM >>>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> Subject: Re: PESO - Healing Vibrations >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I hate comic sans. Chalkboard is slightly better, but it's still a >>>>>>> silly font. >>>>>>> As far as being an imitation goes, that's true of many, many fonts. >>>>>>> Futura is an imitation of Helvetica, >>>>>> >>>>>> Futura predates Helvetica by about 25 years. (Arial is the imitation >>>>>> Helvetica.) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Well then, Helvetica is an imitation of Futura:-). In truth, I can see >>>>> that arial is >>>>> closer to helvetica than is futura. >>>>> >>>>> My point is that many fonts differ only slightly from their bretheren. >>>>> There are so many >>>>> fonts available that choosing one over the other is usually just >>>>> splitting hairs. I >>>>> recently had to help write specs for a magazine redesign. Since i'm no >>>>> font expert, I >>>>> merely looked at what was used in the pubs that won awards. (The majority >>>>> of mags use two >>>>> fonts, with a san serif in headlines and a serif in body copy, with some >>>>> playful switching >>>>> here and there.) The resulting recommendation was adobe garamond pro and >>>>> arial. They are, >>>>> of course, totally different, so they're happy together >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
