Stan, Here's what the editor of 'Technology Review' said about their change in Jan. 2005. Not the technical proof I'd hoped for. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > Ann, I was a bit surprised by Mark's earlier comment that this attitude is > more opinion than scientifically derived Truth, or words to that effect. I > coulda' sworn that I had read a couple of articles on the topic in Human > Factors or IEEE-SMC a few decades ago. I did a quick search, starting and > ending with Wikipedia, and found that the apparent consensus is that there is > no solid evidence one way or the other. > > stan > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > >> >> >> On 9/15/2011 15:03, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>> John, >>> Some years ago, 'Technology Review' changed fonts to Arial (I believe) >>> and stopped hyphenating words, and left justified all columns instead >>> of centering and padding lines to justify both left and right sides. >>> I find this method more enjoyable and natural. MIT, who publishes the >>> magazine, claimed it was technically better for the reader. >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:36 AM, John Coyle<jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>>> Interesting discussion: a journal I edit has just been criticised for >>>> using a sans-serif >>>> font (Arial 10-point) as body text. My reaction was that it's a >>>> modern-looking, clean and >>>> easy-to-read font . >>>> Any comments? >>>> >>>> John Coyle >>>> Brisbane, Australia >> >> I recently read something on line where the opinion was put forth that san >> serif fonts were fine / nice to read on line but that erif font's were >> easier to read in print - especially newsprint sized print. I tend >> to agree. Of course, I can't read 10 point in print without pain anyway :-) >> >> ann >> >> >> >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >>>> Paul Stenquist >>>> Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:08 AM >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> Subject: Re: PESO - Healing Vibrations >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>> >>>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I hate comic sans. Chalkboard is slightly better, but it's still a >>>>>> silly font. >>>>>> As far as being an imitation goes, that's true of many, many fonts. >>>>>> Futura is an imitation of Helvetica, >>>>> >>>>> Futura predates Helvetica by about 25 years. (Arial is the imitation >>>>> Helvetica.) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well then, Helvetica is an imitation of Futura:-). In truth, I can see >>>> that arial is >>>> closer to helvetica than is futura. >>>> >>>> My point is that many fonts differ only slightly from their bretheren. >>>> There are so many >>>> fonts available that choosing one over the other is usually just splitting >>>> hairs. I >>>> recently had to help write specs for a magazine redesign. Since i'm no >>>> font expert, I >>>> merely looked at what was used in the pubs that won awards. (The majority >>>> of mags use two >>>> fonts, with a san serif in headlines and a serif in body copy, with some >>>> playful switching >>>> here and there.) The resulting recommendation was adobe garamond pro and >>>> arial. They are, >>>> of course, totally different, so they're happy together >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
