[PLUG-TALK] winWord Typeface

Ross Brattain ross at principia.edu
Sat May 28 01:02:43 UTC 2005


Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

>    I find it fascinating that every time I get a winWord doc from someone
> (usually an agency, but it could be a private party, too), it's always in
> Times 12 pt. and there are always two spaces after each period.

I tend to think it's more caring to not impose my cleverness on you.
The goal of communication is to communicate.  You don't matter, your
audience does, and beyond that it's a duty to posterity.

Period plus two spaces is a convention, changing the convention
isn't being different or unique, because everyone else will follow and
drone-ness will be re-established.  In the worst case you will
establish a CRLF-LF or ^H-^? nightmare.

I hate serif fonts myself, but they are supposed to be easier to read
in smaller sizes.

Finally, K.I.S.S.


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ross at principia.edu



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