[optacon-l] Re: my favorite font

I have written a book for my granddaughters to give them next Christmas. My 
neighbor, a retired printer, recommended Georgia, 12-point bold. It is like 
the magazine print, wonderful!

In God We Trust,

Carolyn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: my favorite font


> San Serif isn't necessarily difficult, it just means it lacks serifs. 
> I've
> always loved Courier, Times Roman, New Times Roman, and my all time
> favorites Antique Olive and Letter Gothic.  (grin)  In the days of Word
> Perfect 5.1, I went through all of the fonts built into my still running 
> HP4
> Laser Printer, plus those available in WP and add-ons.  I've thought about
> trying the same gambit, printing out all the alpha numeric characters on 
> my
> HP1305, but somehow it makes me tired thinking about how to accomplish it.
> (sad expression)
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:48 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] my favorite font
>
>
>> Vicky and list,,
>>
>> I suspect a lot of us on this list love fonts. I totally agree that some
>> of
>> that gothic print can be a real nightmare to read. But there is a type of
>> print called letter gothic that is nothing like the curlicues and fancy
>> letters  you mention. Letter gothic is an optacon owner's dream to read;
>> it
>> has clear, bold lines and the small a's and small e's are fat and the
>> lines
>> are definite, and the spaces between the lines in the small e's and a's
>> are
>> wider apart than the scrunched-up stuff you see in regular courier print.
>> There's an honest, open character about that type of print. When I got my
>> now-deceased and much loved selectric typewriter many years ago, and the
>> manual came with lots of font samples right in the book, I devoured those
>> few pages with the optacon and found letter gothic for the first time and
>> fell in love with it. It's clear, clean, bold, and it says what it 
>> intends
>> to say without all the stuff that some other font styles add.
>>
>> What do the rest of you think? Do you have favorite fonts or print 
>> styles?
>> Or are you like me and find some are such a pain that you dread the
>> thought
>> of them? I hate those fonts that make small a's look like capital D's. I
>> also hate the ones that have some bold lines and some real faint lines; I
>> think one of them is called sans serif. I also don't like the real
>> squiggly
>> ones that look worse than hand writing.
>>
>> Mary
>>
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