RE: Good font combination story

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Yes, and it is actually a very nice, highly readable design. Among freely available fonts, it is probably my favorite sans-serif. I use it frequently. 

As much as I like Verdana, I also regret that IKEA chose to abandon their long-time signature typeface (Futura) in favor of Verdana. But IKEA is a good case study in the economic and logistical costs of using a typeface that is not ubiquitously available on every Windows desktop, and how those costs can win out over esthetics and maintaining an identifiable corporate image.

-Fred Ridder
 
> Subject: RE: Good font combination story
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:21:53 -0400
> From: DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> 
> Verdana, however, *was* designed for Microsoft.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Ridder
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:46 PM
> > To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Subject: RE: Good font combination story
> > 
> > Your statement about Arial perpetuates several myths and is 
> > simply not correct. Arial is not Microsoft's intellectual 
> > property...
 		 	   		  
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