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Right-reading (adj): Having the proper orientation (used in printing)

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Today is Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:04 pm (U.S. central time).

“Most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.”
-- Jim Harrison

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Comment from Nancy
Time: June 24, 2008, 7:40 am

Funny site but, as you said, honest. I have often wondered at the taste for unreadable or poorly designed type; what’s wrong with all the classic fonts that we have available to us now? A good design doesn’t need an obscure (or cutsey-poo) font and a bad design will not be made better by using the popular font du jour if it’s poorly designed.

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