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…but there's a good chance the color needs to be tweaked a bit.  And it might look better if you nudged it a few pixels off center.

23 Signs That You're Becoming a Design Geek from Crestock.com Blog

I've been accused of getting a little over zealous about design elements, I admit.  And realistically, I understand that most people on the planet don't even know what leading and kerning are, much less care about them.  So when I found the linked article about signs you're becoming a design geek, I alternately laughed and grimaced.  Examples?

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Link to Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : New Fonts For Documents

Aldous Huxley wrote:

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
Typography for the Twentieth-Century Reader
Aldous Huxley

So we will see, at any rate.  The new versions of Microsoft Office now ship with new default fonts and type faces.  Added to the ubiquitous Arial, Verdana, Courier (New) and the loathsome Times New Roman are the new defaults of Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Candara, Constantia and Corbel. (more…)