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Subject:Font and Case for best readability on a Form? From:Hillary Russak <hrussak -at- SLAC -dot- STANFORD -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:02:50 -0700
I'm hoping this is less subjective than "ragged right". Can you-all lend
me your learning on preferred choice of font and mixed-case or caps for
text on a form?
I kinda feel like an idiot in this... I asked one of my authors to change
the mixed-case portion of her form to all-caps, based on my impression that
the all-caps version on the "instructions" page was more readable. Enter
another author, claiming the all-caps was hard to read and had a
questionable retention level...
What say you experts?
-hil
Hillary M. Russak, Technical Writer
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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