[5970] in APO Printshop
Re: tips for "faking" letters? (if you run out)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Tue Mar 9 01:28:04 2010
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:28:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@mit.edu>
cc: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64L.1003090021590.6387@multics.mit.edu>
* check this out before you set any type
(this is one reason, why i try to let the client let me choose the fonts)
* check the galley trays of type that have not yet been put back in the
cases
* shorten the text
* use british instead of american spellings
* use numerals instead of spelt out numbers, '&' instead of 'and', etc.
* Capitalize Each Word
* SWITCH TO ALL CAPS
* in some fonts, only experts will notice substitions of some letters.
e.g. 'I' and 'J' in Engraver's Old English
* reset in a font with enough letters
** same face, a point size up or down
** different face
(this is another reason, why i try to let the client let me choose the fonts)
* check ebay, etc. to see if you anyone is selling the font
yiLFS -len
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Kristin Kuhn wrote:
> I ran out of x's.... I busted out my thesaurus to fix the problem this
> time, but are there any generic tips that people have for the future?
> I looked at a couple different fonts, but they were way too small...
>
> hmmm thanks!
> -Kristin
>
