Re: emphasis- italics vs bold

[Stephanie Gibson <sgibson -at- QWIZ -dot- COM>]

We use bold to indicate buttons, commands, field names, etc. but do not
simply bold the normal 'body' font, we use bold Arial (the same point
size) for emphasis.  Bolding regular body fonts (i.e., Times, etc.) does
look blurry and unsightly at times.

stef


Rebecca Carr wrote:
>
> In my company, italics is preferable to bold. We discourage bolding anywhere
> and reserve it for headings in tables, level headings in chapters, and
> some graphic use. We also use italics VERY sparingly.
>
> I don't have anything to quote you, but our feeling is that
> bolding reduces readability and looks rather unsightly unless you are
> using it to mark "keywords" throughout a text. In this case, you would
> have a glossary of key terms in an appendix to define each of them. This
> is acceptable (at least for us). So, IMHO, don't change the template.
> Emphasis is often overdone; better to have none than too much.
>
> Regards,
>
> Becky
>
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