I'm an old fashioned guy. Comic sans for funny stuff, Times New Roman for papers, Arial for posters. More than that I get a headache trying to pick.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, the link is here... > http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/14063/ > > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
