Re: Fonts?

[cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us]

Helvetica headings with Times body text look pretty good. Garamond text
with Futura or Trade Gothic headings look classy. Make sure when you pick
a font for headings that you choose one with many faces (Extra Bold, Ultra
Condensed, Condensed, Extra Bold Condensed, etc.) so you'll have some
flexibility in your style sheets--Helvetica and Futura are excellent in
this regard. If you don't go with these choices, pick two contrasting
fonts (serif and sans-serif being the most common pairing) that have
similar x-heights (x-height is the height of the lowercase letter x).

Regards,
Chris
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> Hello, our office is trying to decide upon a standard Font to use for our
> manuals (we are at the beginning stages of creating our style guide) For
> my knowledge, what usual fonts are you using? Thanks.

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