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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Aug 15, 2018 19:18:00 GMT
for bartlesbyIf of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender stores, two loaves alone to thee are left
Sell the one and with the dole
buy Hyacinths to feed thy Soul.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 19:19:31 GMT
for bartlesby If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender stores, two loaves alone to thee are left
Sell the one and with the dole
buy Hyacinths to feed thy Soul.
Sadi, 7th century Persian poetThank you.  |
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Post by general313 on Aug 15, 2018 19:28:02 GMT
Can't wait to see how Maya will use the new typefaces. Or maybe I can....
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 15, 2018 20:02:16 GMT
Can't wait to see how Maya will use the new typefaces. Or maybe I can.... For whatever reason I don't know but I was always poor in presentation of any report in my university days. I almost never understood when to use bold or a different font. Perhaps I used Italics correctly for other people's quotes but everything else was too difficult for me to understand. I was also very poor in arts. I used Times New Roman (Font size 11 or 12) when teachers asked for it but more usually whatever font came default with openoffice or libreoffice software.
But fonts can make your reports and presentations look more appealing with the same content. I remember my friends scoring higher than me even though in many cases I wrote the reports for them as well as for me.
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Post by general313 on Aug 15, 2018 20:34:05 GMT
Can't wait to see how Maya will use the new typefaces. Or maybe I can.... For whatever reason I don't know but I was always poor in presentation of any report in my university days. I almost never understood when to use bold or a different font. Perhaps I used Italics correctly for other people's quotes but everything else was too difficult for me to understand. I was also very poor in arts. I used Times New Roman (Font size 11 or 12) when teachers asked for it but more usually whatever font came default with openoffice or libreoffice software.
But fonts can make your reports and presentations look more appealing with the same content. I remember my friends scoring higher than me even though in many cases I wrote the reports for them as well as for me.
When I was in college, we were stuck with whatever was on the daisy wheel printer. We just had to make it look like it was typed. Many instructors insisted on typewriter quality reports and would not accept dot matrix printout (too hard to read I suppose). Good Bad |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Aug 15, 2018 21:02:53 GMT
Can't wait to see how Maya will use the new typefaces. Or maybe I can.... For whatever reason I don't know but I was always poor in presentation of any report in my university days. I almost never understood when to use bold or a different font. Perhaps I used Italics correctly for other people's quotes but everything else was too difficult for me to understand. I was also very poor in arts. I used Times New Roman (Font size 11 or 12) when teachers asked for it but more usually whatever font came default with openoffice or libreoffice software.
But fonts can make your reports and presentations look more appealing with the same content. I remember my friends scoring higher than me even though in many cases I wrote the reports for them as well as for me.
I've been into hand-lettering, graphic design, composition and art from the time I could use a crayon. It's genetic, my grandmother and aunt were artists.
It is amazing how the use of typefaces, bolding, italics, and spacing is for a document, and can definitely influence the beholder. It can also emphasize a thought, by separating it from a longer paragraph.
Bulleting a list under a bolded title will always be more readable than a plain block of copy. It organizes thoughts better when items are grouped.
Some of my favorite things:
Somehow, breaking up copy makes it more accessible for the brain to interpret.
I'm sorry you had trouble with it during your university days; you just needed a good editor with a graphics background. I never had to do reports in college, as my classes were all art-related. But my background has helped me immensely in jobs that required that skill, and I always had the best-looking resume. I would reset copy again and again, in different typefaces, layouts, position in relation to a photo or illustration, playing with what looked best, had the most impact, represented the theme, etc. I can get lost in it for hours.
And, I've done just that! I can hear my tiny kitten wanting his bottle, time to go get lost in that!  Edit: Well, rats! I messed up the bulleted list part, will have to come back and tinker with that later... |
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 30, 2018 19:00:42 GMT
For whatever reason I don't know but I was always poor in presentation of any report in my university days. I almost never understood when to use bold or a different font. Perhaps I used Italics correctly for other people's quotes but everything else was too difficult for me to understand. I was also very poor in arts. I used Times New Roman (Font size 11 or 12) when teachers asked for it but more usually whatever font came default with openoffice or libreoffice software.
But fonts can make your reports and presentations look more appealing with the same content. I remember my friends scoring higher than me even though in many cases I wrote the reports for them as well as for me.
When I was in college, we were stuck with whatever was on the daisy wheel printer. We just had to make it look like it was typed. Many instructors insisted on typewriter quality reports and would not accept dot matrix printout (too hard to read I suppos e)BadJust what exactly is the bad one? Really was that a thing once? Really? |
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Post by general313 on Aug 30, 2018 19:28:45 GMT
When I was in college, we were stuck with whatever was on the daisy wheel printer. We just had to make it look like it was typed. Many instructors insisted on typewriter quality reports and would not accept dot matrix printout (too hard to read I suppos e)BadJust what exactly is the bad one? Really was that a thing once? Really? Dot matrix printout looked something like this (from the type of printer pictured above - the Decwriter, manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation ):  Notice in particular the lower case characters, especially the g, m, and w. I never thought about the fact that younger people today are unfamiliar with this stuff. It makes me feel like someone who lived before they invented water heaters  For reference here's a sample of typewriter lettering (which was pretty much the same as daisywheel or selectric printout):  You can see that a report would be much more legible when rendered with the latter. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Aug 30, 2018 21:21:42 GMT
Just what exactly is the bad one? Really was that a thing once? Really? Dot matrix printout looked something like this (from the type of printer pictured above - the Decwriter, manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation ): Notice in particular the lower case characters, especially the g, m, and w. I never thought about the fact that younger people today are unfamiliar with this stuff. It makes me feel like someone who lived before they invented water heaters For reference here's a sample of typewriter lettering (which was pretty much the same as daisywheel or selectric printout): You can see that a report would be much more legible when rendered with the latter. Whoa, that's a creepy blast from the past! |
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 30, 2018 22:21:20 GMT
general313 I didn't know anything about matrix printout. Thanks for sharing the info. Technology has improved a lot over the years!
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