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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 415005" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Newspapers world-wide are changing their layouts to accomodate the aging baby-boomer bubble, such as increasing the type sizes and ledding, to name one change.</p><p></p><p>Millions upon millions of people are experiencing cataracts, and more and more find themselves trying to deal with <a href="http://www.ahaf.org/macular/about/maabout.htm" target="_blank"><strong>macula degeneration</strong></a>, both of which cut contrast enormously.</p><p></p><p>IMO, the use of gray type yields to form over function. The main objective is to pass on information easily, not throw up artifical barriers, with pretty page layouts important but secondary. Gray type has its place, as does any other typographical device, but it shouldn't be the default. How long would it take before the newspaper was cast aside if the New York Times or any other paper switched to gray type? it would be out of business in a week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 415005, member: 3889"] Newspapers world-wide are changing their layouts to accomodate the aging baby-boomer bubble, such as increasing the type sizes and ledding, to name one change. Millions upon millions of people are experiencing cataracts, and more and more find themselves trying to deal with [URL="http://www.ahaf.org/macular/about/maabout.htm"][B]macula degeneration[/B][/URL], both of which cut contrast enormously. IMO, the use of gray type yields to form over function. The main objective is to pass on information easily, not throw up artifical barriers, with pretty page layouts important but secondary. Gray type has its place, as does any other typographical device, but it shouldn't be the default. How long would it take before the newspaper was cast aside if the New York Times or any other paper switched to gray type? it would be out of business in a week. [/QUOTE]
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