MASTERY

Yo, if anybody out there needs a consultant who's earned his scout badge in Quark Xpress stylesheets, ring me up. I've been buried up to my neck in that schitt for two weeks, and it ain't pretty. The font set Myriad is unconscionably annoying for purposes of simple typesetting. It has that friendly san-serif action going on, and it's sorta versatile as a display font. I could see why it was chosen for those purposes, although it wouldn't be my first pick. If you try to use it in a more utilitarian body-copy setting (i.e. for, say, sidebar contrast with most of your regular text-action) it often raises seriously unpleasant kerning issues and whatnot, especially when you take a lighter weight of it and attempt to make it bold. There is a breath of fresh air in the midst of this fresh hell: I'm rocking the New Caledonia for general read-lots-of-this situations. Again, it wasn't my place to choose, but the work of Mr. Dwiggins is much easier to accept than the Myriad.