RE: Text line length - Was: [Seen this lately?]

OK, you can fire at me too - I agree with Jeniffer about the kind of 
sites Comic Sans is generally used on. It's also used, for a couple 
of paragraphs, on the page that started this original thread.

Typography is 'the most conservative profession' (Robert Bringhurst); 
a professional looking document (or web page) is like a business 
executive, it's assumed to wear a certain style, and, to me at least, 
Comic Sans is tee shirt and jeans, not a suit.

With my typographer hat on I have no qualms about advising my print 
clients on the best faces for their work, I'd be remiss if I didn't; 
it amazes me how many people say 'Helvetica' or 'Times', and I say 
'yuk' silently! They're glad to be advised and given choices they 
didn't know about.

<snip>
>I adore the line-height property, and the very small designer inside 
>me just sighs with contentment at looking at a really pretty 
>paragraph done up in a nice tight sans-serif font with about 2 em 
>line height. Someday I'll be able to use it. ;)
</snip>

Gill Sans, Scala Sans or Syntax?  Dax or Meta? One day ...:)

Cheers.
Freda





-- 
The letters dance in their seats. Sometimes they get up and dance in 
the aisles and margins. -Robert Bringhurst. 

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