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RE: Bored with TNR, Arial, Garamond, and Verdana - Any Ideas?
Subject:RE: Bored with TNR, Arial, Garamond, and Verdana - Any Ideas? From:"Barbara Vega" <BarbaraV -at- libertyims -dot- com> To:"Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:00:42 -0700
Hi
Thanks but I tried Helvetica once because I adore the way it looks and
went bonkers one time because the majority of the printers I worked with
didn't have it and I went nuts trying to obtain it
Sometimes sans serif heading and serif body can look backwards but I
once saw a TOC where it looked really stunning. It was in one of the
Adobe Templates - their Sample Safety Manual they have in their Sample
Templates- version 6 or 7 I believe
The word "Table of Contents " was in TNR ad the rest in Arial and it
really looked nice
Anyway thanks for the email
Barbara
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:44 PM
To: Barbara Vega
Subject: RE: Bored with TNR, Arial, Garamond, and Verdana - Any Ideas?
I've never understood why people use a serif face for heads and
a sans serif face for body--that simply looks backwards to me.
For a long time we used Helvetica (or its ugly imitator Ariel) for
heads and Times for body. Boring but effective.
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