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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:1-2
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Editorial

Changes in font design—should surgeons align?

Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne CH-1011, Switzerland

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This issue of the European Journal for Cardio-thoracic Surgery carries a new font. There are various reasons to change the font of a publication, including pure aesthetics, suitability for production like appearance on the screen, lay out, and print, readability as a function of both, the size and the supporting media, the space required for typesetting a given string of characters, or the image perceived by the reader who may associate certain font types with messages received before.

Certainly, we would not expect to receive a scientific journal in Capitalis quadrata (4th century), which is more suitable for carving in stone, nor a Medieval antiqua (17th century) the latter being associated with psalms composed in Latin. Likewise, traditional fonts used in typewriters, e.g. Helvetica mono-space (20th century), requiring for each character the same amount of space, cannot be the first choice for growing Journals like . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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