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John Palmer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday 06 January 2009 20:34:25 Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Today, we lean toward toward san serif because it reads good/well
on screen. Has that official opinion changed?
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What office are you thinking of, if any ? If I may try to start a discussion
on matters of taste, personally I deplore the recent flood of inelegantly
used sans-serif, on the Web and elsewhere.
Regards, John
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Hear, Hear!<br>
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It might be noted that Tschichold moved away, in later life, from his
passion for sans-serif and "came to the extraordinary conclusion that
the `new typograpny', in ist insistence on certain styles of type and
design, was inherently Fascist." (Sebastian Carter, Twentueth Century
Type Designers, New York, 1987, p. 127.) His final achievement, "his
one significant typeface", (ibid.) was Sabon.<br>
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With modern screen resolutions, a decently restrained seriffed typeface
will surpass any sans-serif for instant readability. Bodoni-like
extremes don't work, but perhaps they never did.<br>
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Pierre MacKay<br>
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