I am working on a document that involves copy that is basically just directions written down how you would say them eg Go to the bottom of x road, turn left. Take a right along the enbankment etc.
I dont want to just have it as an ordinary paragraph and as there is no higherarchy for headers/pull quotes etc im looking for other ideas to make it more interesing?
I was thinking along the lines of using // instead of full stops or dingbat arrows?
Anyone done anything similar or any ideas?
Depending on the use to which the document is to be put you could do a rally roadbook, if it slightly less important to have the directions as useable as that, you could do a ’map’ with the directions following the roads from the top left corner to bottom right.
Tim
You could set it in roman U&lc, but have proper names, such as X ROAD in small caps, and geographical features, such as the embankment in italic.
(Sorry, X ROAD was supposed to be in small caps, but Typophile doesn’t support the “small” tag.)
Another tool, alternative to the slash, is the mid-dot to separate pieces of the direction in the paragraph.
How about just a bullet list? You could use dingbat arrows for bullets that went left or right depending on the turn.
ChrisL
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