Re: FAQ Intranet site tips on visuals

[John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM>]

Lisa...

Over the last three days, I've been writing the summary of a recommendation to
be submitted to management on major-redoing of a set of documents. One of the
books I've been going to ALOT is the book by Karen Schriver, "Dynamics in
Document Design".  One of it's strong points is its tremendous referencing
against proven/published sources to corroborate the content. Just an example,
the bibliography goes about 21 pages with roughly 40 credits per page (the book
is over 500 pages). It is copyrighted in '97, so it's relatively current. It's
available from Amazon.

One of the chapters you may find of interest is #5, "Seeing the Text: The Role
of Typography and Space".  My favorite right now is Chapter 6; The Interplay of
Words and Pictures.

John Posada

It addresses both hardcopy documentation and web pages

Comeau, Lisa wrote:

> Hey gang, although I am having a ball reading the meaningless titles thread,
> I DO have a serious question.
>
> Anyone know if there have been any studies done on which fonts or styles of
> web pages are most easily read and understood?
>

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