I wonder how much needless strain has been caused by the bonkers typographic requirements for academic dissertations?
(in the US, usually a single column text block on 8.5"x11" with 1" margins—and double spaced! my eyes just slip right off these lines…)
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Built for red pens?
Makes me wonder what the best typography is for word processor comments.
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Oh of course I forgot about type writers… room for white out and the correction without retyping the whole page.
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Yeah. And yet still the modern standard!