From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 17:31:24 EDT
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: AbiWord Font Usability question
From: Seth Nickell <snickell@stanford.edu>
To: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Cc: Hubert Figuiere <hub@nyorp.abisource.com>,
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On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 09:15, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 4:59 AM -0400 8/28/02, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >1) Almost everyone makes consistent use of a sans-serif font and a serif
> >font. Most people don't really care which sans-serif or serif font this
> >is as long as it is a good one.
>
> I would argue that 90% of the world using a word processor
> has never even HEARD the term "serif" - let alone know what it is,
> and when to use it.
Of course we wouldn't actually use that term anywhere in the interface.
But given the documents I have lying around me, I do see use of
basically-identical (i.e. helvetica or times clones) serif and
sans-serif fonts in approximately equal proportions. Whether people are
using them properly....well....that's a discussion for the more pedantic
than I ;-)
-Seth
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