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--- "W. Kelly Oja" <judbasiner -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Whirlers:
>
> Just curious of how small is too small with a print
> document. I have
> in the past at my current job used Verdana for a
> vast majority of my
> documents--except for special cases, i.e. call-outs,
> hints, warnings,
> etc.
>
> Anyway, I typically use a 10-pt for test, and 15 for
> major headers,
> 12.5 for subheads.
>
As someone else suggested, experiment, and I suggest
taking samples to various people to ask their opinion
about readability. What looks perfectly readable to
you may be too small to the person using the document,
for example. I find Verdana 10pt to be too small for
comfortable reading.
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