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Article #682Re: Unreadable Typeface on DVD Cases
From: Dick Margulis
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06
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Armadillo wrote: >> Well, that's possible. It's certainly the rationale for some of the >> fonts used on food packaging. (In the US, the applicable regulations >> specify the height of certain required elements. In some cases these are >> absolute cap height in inches. In other cases they are expressed as a >> percentage of the name of the product.) > > This is one way to do it but unfortunately cap height does not include readability. Yes, that's exactly the point. In the US, regulations are the output of long negotiations between bureaucrats and the lawyers representing regulated industries. The bureaucrats want the net weight, for example, to be easily comprehended by the consumer. The industry wants the ability to conceal the net weight. The two sides argue back and forth, and the compromise they settle on is a specification of cap height. Then the manufacturer is free to choose an illegibly condensed font at that height. I was just saying that how those decisions get made; I wasn't suggesting it was a good idea <g>
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