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Subject:Looking for the right font From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com> To:Tech Writing List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 May 2000 12:20:21 -0500
I'm looking for suggestions for a body font for a long (600+ pages)
document to be printed at 11- or 12-point size. It needs to be readable and
esthetically pleasing. And fit my unreasonable prejudices, of course. I'm
leaning towards a Type 1 font for ease of PDFing, but I'll entertain
suggestions for any good fonts. Readability on screen is a plus, since I
expect some people won't print it out.
So far the ones I've looked at have been Georgia (TT), Stone Serif, Goudy,
and Sabon.
I like the roman font of Galliard, but not the italics. I don't like Caslon
at all, and I'm burned out on Baskerville/New Baskerville and Palatino.
Suggestions?
--
Beth Friedman / bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words;
on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
