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Subject:Re: Font Peeves From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:10:00 -0800
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From: Barry House
I learn something every day I read this list. If Times is a bad font for
business correspondence, what's a preferred font?
What about body copy for a manual--what fonts are preferred there?
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My fav is Palatino, but I can't use it here because I'm restricted to
TrueType. So I'm using Century Schoolbook. But actually, I prefer the
way my docs turn out when I run them through Acrobat Distiller.
Apparently, it substitutes the AdobeSans and AdobeSerif multiple-master
fonts.
P.S. I think Bookman looks horrible. It's the only body font that
jumps out at me when I see it. It gets in the way of the content. When
I open a book written in Times, Schoolbook, Palatino, or just about
anything else, I don't notice right away what the font is. But as soon
as I open a book written in Bookman, I can't help thinking, "Yuck.
Bookman."
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
