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Very true. I've done layouts for newspapers before and I've noticed a few things: 1) White space looks wonderful, but for some reason we lend more 'serious cr
by tsunamifury 15y ago
Very true. I've done layouts for newspapers before and I've noticed a few things:
1) White space looks wonderful, but for some reason we lend more 'serious creedance' to text that is small and crammed together.
2) Design is good to a point, but then drops off when it begins to feel 'commercial' I think after a hundred years of reading sloppily put together papers chalk full of the latest news, we sort of associate bad design with its 'genuineness' and overly clean design with something desceptive.
- Angostura 15y agoIn the late 1980s there was a nice study that was produced with the advent of the then nwe-fangled laser printers. It showed that journalists were less likely to read a press release if produced in a neat, attractive sans-serif font, and more likely to read it for news content if produced in slightly distressed Courier.