[duxuser] Bullets
- From: "Warren Figueiredo" <warrenfigueiredo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:36:30 -0600
Catherine said "The purpose of bullets is never decorative. The purpose is
to highlight something that the document is emphasizing."
I disagree. Before the advent of desktop publishing, many published or typed
materials relied on a change of margin and indenting pattern to signal such
lists. And that distinction carries over into today's highly bulleted stuff.
Now bulleted lists are everywhere and "decorative" bullets abound. Just the
other day I saw a cookbook that bulleted every ingredient in the entire
cookbook with a cute little groceries icon. It was just as decorative as it
could be and provided no distinction whatsoever to the lists of ingredients.
What really made the distinction was the contrasting indention pattern. The
recipes used indented paragraphs. The ingredients used an outdented format.
If all the bullets were removed no distinction would have been lost.
They don't call it "eye candy" for nothing.
Warren
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