Re: Font Question, Multi use document

[Reuven Frank <reuven -at- E-AND-C -dot- COM>]

Yes, I have noticed this, as well.
And on the document scale.

It has gotten to the point where I had to create additonal Document Templates for an entire set of company documentation.

This means that the "Hi-tech" stuff (my.doc's) are still in w/Serif, while most of the "Public" stuff (including some Course instruction manuals), is now in Arial.

I was even more shocked recently when I learned that almost all of the on-line Help files/programs are in Arial.

"The times they are a'changin'."-Bob Dylan

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From:   Damien Braniff
Sent:   Tue, 28 Jul.98 08:30 AM
To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject:        Re: Font Question, Multi use document

We too are looking at our current documents and how they can be improved -
layout, fonts, etc.  Some time ago I did a little in-house experiment and
printed out a paragraph of text in a variety of fonts and circulated it for
opinion.  Contrary to research that serif fonts are easier to read the most
popular fonts were sans serif like arial (what we currently use).  It was
suggested that a paragraph wasn't enough text to get a fair response - a
para of one font may be easy to read but a whole page...  I'm currently
repeating the process with more text and initial results again show that
people prefer the sans serif fonts.  I know this is just a small straw poll
but has anyone else come across this or is it just an aberration?

Damien Braniff
Technical Author
PAC International

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