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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 4384552" data-attributes="member: 447"><p>And may look great printed on a different printer. And may look weird-but-still-okay on yet a third printer. That's why publishing houses get proof copies from the machine that will actually be used to run final copies at the print house. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I do understand the "dead copy" exercise, so for what it's worth, Blind, the "faux bold" is still quite obvious in your, what is it, a screencap? To me it is, anyway.</p><p></p><p>You said you were trying to dial in the font sizing and spacing: using my handy-dandy printer's point ruler on my copy of the PHB, I'd say the power listings appear to have text size/leading of 8.75/10 (there's a couple points of padding above and below the italic paragraph). The color bar appears to be 14.5 points thick; the power name looks like 11 point text and the other text there is back to the 8.75 size. The PHB text appears to be tracked just a smidgen looser than yours, as well, but that's harder to nail down looking at a screencap versus printed pages.</p><p></p><p>Now, I used Warnock and Myriad to substitute for Mentor and Mentor Sans when I did my versions of the MM pages WOTC released. They worked well enough. Not, strictly speaking, a suggestion*; just a point of reference. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Also, it wasn't a "dead copy" exercise but an intentional departure just for my own amusement.</p><p></p><p>* Though personally I find something annoying about Mentor. I think it's that it has too great an x-height to support the chosen leading. I'm not sure though. And in any case, that's entirely a matter of opinion and personal preference and whatnot (I *am* glad it's not Times New Roman or Bodoni, two of my least favorite text fonts), and I probably think too much about these things anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 4384552, member: 447"] And may look great printed on a different printer. And may look weird-but-still-okay on yet a third printer. That's why publishing houses get proof copies from the machine that will actually be used to run final copies at the print house. :) I do understand the "dead copy" exercise, so for what it's worth, Blind, the "faux bold" is still quite obvious in your, what is it, a screencap? To me it is, anyway. You said you were trying to dial in the font sizing and spacing: using my handy-dandy printer's point ruler on my copy of the PHB, I'd say the power listings appear to have text size/leading of 8.75/10 (there's a couple points of padding above and below the italic paragraph). The color bar appears to be 14.5 points thick; the power name looks like 11 point text and the other text there is back to the 8.75 size. The PHB text appears to be tracked just a smidgen looser than yours, as well, but that's harder to nail down looking at a screencap versus printed pages. Now, I used Warnock and Myriad to substitute for Mentor and Mentor Sans when I did my versions of the MM pages WOTC released. They worked well enough. Not, strictly speaking, a suggestion*; just a point of reference. :) Also, it wasn't a "dead copy" exercise but an intentional departure just for my own amusement. * Though personally I find something annoying about Mentor. I think it's that it has too great an x-height to support the chosen leading. I'm not sure though. And in any case, that's entirely a matter of opinion and personal preference and whatnot (I *am* glad it's not Times New Roman or Bodoni, two of my least favorite text fonts), and I probably think too much about these things anyway. [/QUOTE]
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