Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ouch, but thanks. I have done two issues to date. I only arranged the advertising and put in the stories, having copied the design used for years. I used InDesign. I copied the old issues and used text next to thumbnail photos. I agree that looks terrible. We have an archaic WEB page that I have nothing to do with. This particular issue is being mailed via US Mail due to volunteers not wanting to deliver it due to COVID-19, and it gets us past security locked buildings. Note we are asking people to subscribe to the electronic version (for the first time). Nonetheless, a paper copy is delivered three or four times a year. There is considerable turn over in our neighborhood and we are trying to get the information into their homes. As my cousin said 20 years ago, a web page is like having a billboard in your basement if people don?t know about it. Yes, I used Times New Roman. I would appreciate suggestions for other fonts to consider. Can you suggest any learning tools? Thanks Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Brian Reid Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:41 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Fonts Fonts should be invisible. Their job is to carry the content, not BE the content. Pick one font family and use it everywhere, with occasional use of bold or larger sizes. Avoid too many different sizes. And using more than one font in the same document requires an expert eye. Like growing bamboo in your garden. That document is an amateur freak show as it currently stands. It looks like it was produced with Microsoft Publisher and then converted from PostScript to PDF externally. Look at the capital E in "East Side" as an example of freakiness. Also look at the hyphenation and column widths in the articles that have an opening photograph. That document looks to my eye to be using Times New Roman, which was designed for newspapers and is very busy here in such a large size Simplify, simplify. What tools will you be using? I hope not Publisher. Why not make it a web site? This is 2020, after all, not 1975. On 2020-03-24 10:54 am, Keith Wessel wrote: > Brian, > > I have a new volunteer gig producing our neighborhood newsletter. I > have never worked with Fonts. Could you suggest a few for me to > consider? > > http://www.tenneylapham.org/web-data/news/newspdfs/spring%202020.pdf > > Thanks, > > Keith > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Brian Reid > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:45 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] old/new livery > > I am horrified by their use of Bodoni Ultra as the font for the > locomotive number. The old style used Helvetica and Helvetica Bold, > which are trite but effective. > > But I enjoy this and all of your train pictures. Because of your > pictures I find myself actually interested in trains. > > On 2020-03-23 5:29 pm, CartersXRd via LUG wrote: >> <https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.03.21x.html> >> >> The Daily Ric -EXTRA- >> Saturday, March 21, 2020 >> Before and after paint for Carolina Coastal Railway. See it large and >> proper at the link here. >> >> Ric Carter >> www.2020.CartersXRd.net >> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter >> >> ?When you don?t shoot color, you don?t have to worry about color.? ? >> Jay Hunter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information