Thank you Erik, your pdf of fonts was most useful. I enjoyed your comments too, Brian.

Doug

On 10 Jan 2011, at 00:25, Brian Ferguson wrote:

> WAS: Re: iText Express/Pro
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> Yes please Erik, I would appreciate being sent copy of your most used fonts.
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> I assume it does not include the 100 or so which I recall you saying you loaded at start-up     ((-:
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> For a long time my favourite font was Apple Garamond, but as I get older I feel its strokes are becoming too narrow and I tend towards normal Garamond. I do not need to worry about font substitution by others.
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> When I first started writing anything for publication, many decades ago, I read a couple of articles on layout and the concept was quite clear:
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> a. when the text, such as a heading, was not expected to be read very carefully, use a san-serif font.
> b. for serious printing, use a font with serifs.
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> I still try to go by these two rules.
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> How often do you merely glance at a heading, forget it and move on? All the time for me.
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> Why are advertisements written in san-serif? Because the advertisers do not expect anyone to read the fine-print. They may find out too much if they read the lot.
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> If there is one font-type I despair of, it is the san-serif where an uppercase 'L' comes out as '|' [shift-\ is the best I can do to illustrate] or  lower case 'i' is embedded/jammed between other letters. I find this is being written in Verdana Regular 13pt, not exactly sans-serif but quite readable. 
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> This reminds me, I must disable 95% of my fonts.
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> Regards from brianF
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> On 10/01/2011, at 2:45 AM, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
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>> Hei Doug
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>> Doug Browne wrote:
>>> Would you please tell me which is the easiest font to read. I generally use Gentium Book Basic, but I also use Didot.
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>> Huh... That's hard to say... I think this is somewhat individual for each person and how his eyes react on a given text font...
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>> Else my absolutely prefered serif font is the classic Garamond - preferably the URW version because that one is a bit thicker in the downward strokes and therefore easier to read for people with reduced sight.
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>> I have made a PDF document with my most used fonts shown in a small text example using both the Danish//Scandinavian and German characters in various sizes for an easy comparison, so if you - or others - would like to have this, just send me a note off-list and I'll return the mail with this document attached.
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>> Cheers, Erik Richard
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