Balancing text for better readability

Re:Balancing text for better readability by thoughtcriminal on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:50PM (#5190328)

The "bread font"... is that a design term? I like it, and it intuitively makes sense. I'm just wondering if that's a common term or if bread is interchangeable with potato, pasta or some other starchy food that fills you up.

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Re:Balancing text for better readability by stdbrouw on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:21PM (#5190470)

I've definitely heard it before, though "body font" seems to be much more prevalent. It's probably a literal translation from a continental Germanic language, e.g. Dutch has "broodtekst" though the word refers to the actual body copy, not the font. German has "Bröttext".

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Re:Balancing text for better readability by arrrg on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:56PM (#5190633)

Haha, no, body text is them common English expression. I just translated “Brotschrift” literally to English and somehow convinced myself that it’s an actual English expression.

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Re:Balancing text for better readability by thoughtcriminal on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:03PM (#5191216)

Lets start using it. I'm going to start calling it the "bread font" anyway. Maybe it'll catch on ;)

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Re:Balancing text for better readability by diebuche2 on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:46PM (#5190584)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotschrift

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