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there are thousands of fonts available in font libraries. Look for example
at the Adobe Type on Call CD-ROM, which is distributed with almost every
Adobe product.
To find your good combination, it might be worthwile to look a bit in good
typography books. There are many helpful hints and tips there.
A decent heading font with Garamond would be Futura Condensed, maybe
Helvetica Narrow. In any case, it should be a relatively narrow sans-serif
font.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
e-mail: mailto:prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch or 100012 -dot- 44 -at- compuserve -dot- com
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>My Project Team has been debating on changing the fonts in our documents to
>make the documents easier to read. We are using Microsoft Word as the main
>publishing tool and unfortunately, the selection of fonts is limited. Does
>anyone know of a software font package that installs additional fonts not
>included with the Microsoft package? We would like an equivalent for
>Helvetica, Palatino, etc.
>
>Also, we have currently decided to go with Garamond 12pt for most of the
>body text. Can anyone recommend a good Heading font that goes well with
>that?
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
