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(92.62.78.23) by thesan.fiee.net with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 18 Apr 2014 18:12:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20140417214240.71d99fa5@Klapprechner1.site> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: ntg-context@ntg.nl, base:default, @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=178.77.74.245; country=DE; region=North Rhine-Westphalia; city=Host; latitude=51.6500; longitude=6.1833; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.6500,6.1833&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0RLPscqKr - 3be3f7725661 - 20140418 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:87050 Archived-At: Am 2014-04-18 um 01:42 schrieb Joshua Kr=E4mer : > On 2014-04-16, 9:45, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > = >> I don=92t think Baltica is very legible, even if it fits the style. > = > It is based on Candida, which I find quite legible especially in small > texts for German. It is for example used by the German Magazine > "Focus", you can see an example here (from "Focus Schule"): > http://news.elli-e.de/Focus2000.jpg Thank you! I tried a slab serif as body font only once (can=92t remember which), for a= book that I typeset during vocational school, and I wouldn=92t try it agai= n. > However, I don't know how legible its cyrillic characters are. Cyrillic is illegible per se ;-) Seriously, I find Cyrillic text always looks like in all small caps, beside= s me still not used to reading it. > Anyway, I have no objections against a sans serif like Journal! Thank you ;-) For now I decided to use just PT Serif plus PT Sans. Everything that I trie= d yet in =84historic=93 looks didn=92t please my eyes. 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