RE: Typeface for Callout Boxes

["Sagendorph, Wallace" <WIS8 -at- CDC -dot- GOV>]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for callout box
typeface/font guidance --- you were all a real help.

Wallace


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Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:32 PM
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Subject: RE: Typeface for Callout Boxes


Hi Wallace,

The tradition for manuals in the US is serif for body text and
sans-serif
for headings and captions. Callouts are usually sans-serif because they
are more readable at smaller font sizes (i.e., Helvetica at 9 point is
as
readable as Garamond is at 11). So you can have smaller callouts for
cleaner looking graphics without sacrificing readablilty.

Chris
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