[LMB] Back to Lois' covers after smart apostrophes in Word

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 11:28 PM 9/28/2007, Paula Lieberman wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net>
>
>
> > At 10:57 PM 9/27/2007, Paula Lieberman wrote:
> >>Font wars!  The Courier that Microsoft uses is not a nice one, however,
> >>I -loathe-, utterly -loathe- Arial.  I HATE it, and it's ubiquitous. Give
> >>me
> >>serif, I have an astigmatism... I HATE Arial, and yearn to for the day it
> >>gets EXTERMINATED off every computer and piece of paper in existence...
> >
> > You apparently don't like sans serif fonts.  I use them
>
>I don't. I find them hard to read.
>
> > exclusively.  This is being typed into Lucinda Sans Typewriter, a
> > sans serif fixed width font which looks just like Arial.
>
>Different people, different vision systems... one friend a special
>convention ribbon was made up for, unfortunately the ribbon was slightly off
>as regards design with colors for him to not be able to read (his color
>vision has some unusual anomalies, it's not one of the more common red-green
>colorblindness of the less common than red-green but still more prevalent
>that whatever he has, yellow-blue colorblindess.
>
>Hmm, it just occurred to me to wonder about SF covers and people with
>non-normal color vision.  Maybe the old Baen covers on Lois' books don't
>look quite so appalling to them....


I have partly defective color vision.  I find red and green to be 
nearly the same, but can tell the difference when the colors are 
sufficiently bright.  I think that aqua is blue, however, and don't 
see red flowers in a bed of green leaves, or apples on a tree, and a 
sign with red letters on a green background is hopeless at any distance.

OTOH, I got into Navy OCS by passing a color vision test with lights, 
and a student's license to learn to fly by finding all of the red or 
green pieces in a pile of small hanks of yarn.

Those covers are just butt ugly in any color.


-- 
Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net