Since many of these same towns and cities have to fund all of these materials themselves, who's going to justify spending extra money to make materials that most people won't read anyway more legible?
Think about it -- there were locations in Florida that were still using 30 year-old voting booths in the last election.
The comment "no one thought to use old-style figures" is being far too kind to the people who laid out the brochure.
I would bet 500 megs of RAM that the people who laid out the copy don't know what old-style figures are nor where they can be obtained.
It does no good for programs such as InDesign to support typographic nuances when there is an entire generation of designers who have never seen old-style figures.
Think about it. Desktop publish has been used in mass media for about 16 years. That means children who were 10 years old are now 26 year-old art directors and designers. They went through all of high school and college design classes most liekly never learning about to open an "Expert" font set to get to the old-style figures.
Same thing for proper small caps, swashes, fractions, etc.
As much as I like the typographic nuances in ID, I worry that it is too late for most people to know what to do with them.
Submitted by SandeeCohen99 on Sat, 02/23/2002 - 08:12.
Budgetary concerns contribute to issue
Since many of these same towns and cities have to fund all of these materials themselves, who's going to justify spending extra money to make materials that most people won't read anyway more legible?
Think about it -- there were locations in Florida that were still using 30 year-old voting booths in the last election.
It's not a plot--it's ignorance
The comment "no one thought to use old-style figures" is being far too kind to the people who laid out the brochure.
I would bet 500 megs of RAM that the people who laid out the copy don't know what old-style figures are nor where they can be obtained.
It does no good for programs such as InDesign to support typographic nuances when there is an entire generation of designers who have never seen old-style figures.
Think about it. Desktop publish has been used in mass media for about 16 years. That means children who were 10 years old are now 26 year-old art directors and designers. They went through all of high school and college design classes most liekly never learning about to open an "Expert" font set to get to the old-style figures.
Same thing for proper small caps, swashes, fractions, etc.
As much as I like the typographic nuances in ID, I worry that it is too late for most people to know what to do with them.