The Art of Type: How To Create ‘Squint-Free’ Small Type
The disclosure forms for prescription drugs are typically printed using eye-aching 6-pt Helvetica Light Condensed. It would doubtless be smaller if this min. weren’t mandated by law. As a designer/typesetter, your job is to make sure the type you create isn’t just legible & readable, usually there’s no FDA around to make sure you do the right thing
