William Adams <[log in to unmask]> writes on Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:34:56 -0400: >> Books set in all sans serif are moderately common in Europe, somewhat >> rare in the UK, fairly rare in Canada and pretty uncommon in the US. One large US publisher does a lot of sans serif publishing, and has for 35+ years: IBM. While many of their technical manuals are now available in HTML, and thus, in any font the user chooses, printed manuals and online PDF manuals are traditionally in sans serif. See any of the books at http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/redbooks/ for recent examples. The IBM Systems Journal and IBM Journal of Research and Development use sans serif for abstracts, and serif for body text. The four Motorola books on my shelf are also all in sans serif, while DEC's (later Compaq, now HP) and Intel's are serifed. Jan V. White's excellent books on book design, ``Color for the Electronic Age'' and ``Graphic Design for the Electronic Age'', are set in sans serif. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: [log in to unmask] - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [log in to unmask] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------