Re: Xy4 Customization Guide Preview

[Carlo Caballero carloc@xxxxxxxx]

Quoting "Patricia M. Godfrey" :

> But if that's being done, it should be easy to change the typesize too,
> no? And perhaps the font? It's a commonplace in publishing that one
> doesn't use sans serif type for long passages: it's too hard to read.
> Body Text, as the DTP apps call it, is usually a serif font: Times
> Roman, Caslon, any of the Garamonds, Century, etc. (That was done in the
> original: nice old-style font, though I'm not sure which. Paul the type
> expert?) Sans fonts are used for headings, captions, and legends. (It's
> true that a lot of journals and magazines are disregarding this
> nowadays: they think it's "artistic" to print an article in 9-point
> Helvetica--and with a pale green screen over it too. Fine if none of
> their readers are over 55.)

I'm a lot younger, but I'm completely with you on the sparing use of
sans-serif! The idiocy of current trends in magazine "design" is beyond
comprehension (though some magazines are backing away from the worst
excesses of circa 2000).

Cheers,
Carlo


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