On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:31:37 -0500 Noel Stoutenburg <mjol...@ticnet.com> wrote:
> bassm...@katamail.com wrote: > > > By "larger appearance" I mean that there's more room and looser spacing in > > sans serifs compared to serifs - just compare the relative size of Times > > 10 and Helvetica 10. > > The fact that theres "more room and looser spacing" in Helvetica than in > Times is part of the characteristic of those particular fonts, and it > does not automatically follow that the amount of size and density of all > sans serif fonts have more room and looser spacing than all serif fonts. That's right. I was thinking "standard fonts" without even noticing. The minor role of serifs in shorter stretches of text still stands, though. Antonio -- Antonio Di Martino, <bassm...@katamail.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
