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Subject:Re: Standard Fonts for Technical Documentation From:John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:53:31 -0400
We did that ~16 years ago when I was working for Ziff Davis as part of a
team developing its pre-Internet online magazine platform. Matthew Carter
designed IChange Sans for us (our platform was called Interchange) and it
ended up being a dress rehearsal for his Verdana font which you might have
heard of that came out just about a year later.
JG
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> If the company is rolling in money, the design department could
> commission a set of typefaces specifically for use by that company for
> its materials. Just check out GE. ;-)
>
> -T
>
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