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Arial 40

Futura Lt BT 40

AaBbCcDdEeFfGg (Times New Roman 12

pt)

AaBbCcDdEeFfGg (Garamond 12

pt)

AaBbCcDdEeFfGg (Arial 12

pt)

AaBbCcDdEeFfGg (Futura Lt BT 12

pt)

As you can see, the font Arial takes up a little more room than a same sized Times New

Roman, and each character stands out very clearly – good for publicity purposes.

A similar font to Arial is Futura Lt BT, which takes up less space and is overall less heavy than

Arial. Futura Lt BT marries well to the Serif font Garamond, taking up around the same

amount of space and being equally light weight. Prerequisite of course: you have to have these

various fonts installed on your machine.

Taking a closer look at our two Serif Fonts, Times New Roman and Garamond, you will

notice that the latter is somewhat finer and rounder in overall shape. This increases the legibil-

ity even more. A page full of Garamond text will appear lighter than one full of Times New

Roman.

On the whole avoid using different fonts. Instead just vary font size and typeface (Regular,

Italic, Bold and Bold Italic).

If you are using a page format of A4, you will probably want a font size of 12pt (or 11pt in

case you do opt for Arial, which is by nature larger). If producing a pamphlet size A5 you can

reduce the font size down to 11pt or even 10.5pt. The better the printer and the quality of

paper, the more you can reduce the font size without the text becoming illegible.

Note: Some lecturers – at least over here in Germany – insist on very detailed specifications as

to font type, font size, line spacing, margins and number of pages. This is to control the over-

all amount of text produced. This is a misuse of optical design for a foreign purpose. It would

be simpler to say: “Please limit yourself to 10,000 characters plus/minus five percent.” See

section 46 on Document Infos.

35 Emphasis

If you want to emphasise a word, use Italics. In the old days of mechanical typewriters you

couldn’t do that. So instead people would hammer over the text two or three times to achieve

boldness, or they would underline their text, or possibly choose to s p a c e o u t

the passage or opt for CAPITAL LETTERS. Theoretically they could use any combination of

these allowing for a maximum of 4 x 4 = 16 possibilities. Printshops with only limited finan-

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