Since you were so useful in answering my question about which font to use in a professional document (in a creative field), here’s another issue I’m dealing with: I heard that fully-justified text might be out of style and can make for bad page layout. What’s your take on this debate?
This article claims that there is no right or wrong when it comes to page layout and that it all depends on the type of document. The technical and marketing writer in my house believes that full-justification creates too much white space through the lines and makes the text hard to read.
I should precise that the document I’m working on will be published with MS Word and printed (vs read on a computer screen). Also, the 50 pages guideline we received from the tv broadcaster – whose call for entries we are answering – is fully-justified, and I believe that this is what my boss will want to go for as well. Most people think fully-justified looks more pro. This guy’s take on the issue is interesting:
In other words, the reason that some people, including your boss, prefer full-justification has little to do with aesthetics. In most cases, the reason for the preference is technical: until the emergence of the personal computer, any attempt at full justification was next to impossible for the average person. As a result, when word processors made full justification a possibility, many people jumped at the chance to use it on the grounds that it looked more sophisticated.
Among typographers, however, the general consensus is that, with a tool like MS Word, you’re better off with left-justified text. Do a search, and you should have no problem finding dozens of expert opinions to back up this contention.
Still, I’m curious to know if there’s a trend about this right now in the oh so hip world of desktop publishing.
J’aime bien quand je n’ai qu’� claquer des doigts (ou du clavier) et que mes d�sirs deviennent r�alit�.
Via Carnet CFD.
You have this pounding headache, the kind that pills won’t cure, and you take a quick break from your writing of a tv show proposal by having a look at a couple of links on your blogroll (yeah, you still don’t use an RSS feed reader, you’re lazy and old-fashioned in that way). You read the comments on a post about modern designs, you decide to check out what this DWR catalog is all about (how could you have missed it? It’s based in San Francisco), and then you realize (though you kind of knew it could only be) that the very inexpensive reading chair and ottoman you recently purchased is a rip-off of the City Armchair. You read more about the fauteuil and then find this: … the City Armchair and Ottoman capture classic drawing room elegance with rich leather upholstery and exceptional craftsmanship.
You think: ah, the famous drawing room. You had noticed that the term “drawing room” came up often in non-contemporary novels you read, and that you had developed a specific fascination for the drawing room in Rebecca (which you were recently surprised to see in a best-seller section at Indigo, or maybe the Big Read top 21 section). And then you wonder: what the hell is a drawing room exactly? You have vague ideas of a personal space, sort of the feminine equivalent of the “study” for a man, and you know that the term makes you dream, that the idea of a house with a drawing room is something of a myth, unreachable. And yet now you’ve got this cool reading chair and a decent house (you had always wanted a reading chair), and that headache is making you dizzy, kind of like the Web does sometimes, and boy are you ever going to get rid of that headache ’cause you can’t seem to quiet down that mind of yours, clicking and clicking and pounding one more thought, one more link, too many interesting things to do and learn about in a lifetime and you’ve got a bad case of the Web brain.
You better get back to writing or else who’s going to pay for that drawing room you want? And what’s a drawing room anyway?
Suis enfin all�e voir The Girl with a Pearl Earring. N’ai pas �t� d��ue. Tr�s beau travail d’adaptation, bonnes interpr�tations, beau bonhomme. Et la photo! La photo! Composition fid�le � l’esprit de Vermeer, lumi�re d’une beaut� � couper le souffle.
Mes surprises et joies pour les nominations aux Oscars:
-La pr�sence marqu�e de l’excellent film City of God, qu’il faut absolument voir.
-La nomination de l’adorable et talentueuse Keisha Castle-Hughes du film Whale Rider. Elle m’avait arrach� des larmes, la coquine. Habituellement je n’aime pas qu’on mette des enfants en nomination, mais la petite pourrait bien m�riter les honneurs. Louez le DVD et regardez-la en entrevue. Gr�ce et spontan�it�. On va lui revoir la binette � celle-l�! (Tiens, en faisant des recherches, je viens d’apprendre qu’elle sera la prochaine Queen of Naboo dans Star Wars III.)
I know very little about fonts and page layout but I know that a lot of you out there are experts at this kind of stuff. So here’s a question for you: I’m working on a proposal for a tv show aimed at teenagers, age 15 and up. My boss, the producer, was thinking about using a cool and young font for the presentation of our project to the broadcaster. This document includes a description of the content of the show (characters, storyline, etc) as well as production and budget details (spreadsheets).
Do you have any font to suggest that might work well for a project like ours? Ideally, this should be a font easily available and not something that we would have to pay a fortune to get.
What’s the standard these days? Is it considered cheesy to present a professional document in an unusual font? I think most producers play it safe and stick to Times New Roman or Arial. My boss wants to be more original since the show is centered around teenagers. What should I tell her?
Un verre de vin rouge et un nouveau fauteuil couleur cr�me.
Un grand brun, son chat jaune, un feu orange.
La nuit bleue qui tombe pr�s d’une cuisine rubis.
Qui a dit que l’hiver �tait blanc?
So can someone explain to me why (or if) I should switch from my Blogger produced RSS feed to this new Atom thing?
Thanks in advance.
Blork and I have been invited to join a community blog based in San Francisco called Wild Thymes. It’s all about food, of course.
Z�non has a great idea: he proposes that YULbloggers find a way to participate in the long Nuit Blanche, which will take place during the night of February 28th to February 29th (Saturday to Sunday, 7pm till 6am).
There’s already so much going on during that night. Should we do a blog marathon? Invade a caf� that has WiFi and stay up writing all night? The thing is, last time I stayed up all night, it took me 3 days to recover…
My anglo friends might be pleased to learn that the great tv series La Vie la vie, which aired on Radio-Canada a couple of years ago, is now showing on CBC every Monday night, just after midnight. It’s part of The Best of French Canada series, which airs qu�b�cois programs with English subtitles.
If you tune in next Monday you’ll only have missed the first couple of episodes, which were not the best anyway. Find out what all the fuss was about! It’s a great show. Even the hard to please Capitaine liked it!
