The rhetoric of typography: The awareness and impact of typeface appropriateness

Technical Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 224-231

  Brumberger, Eva R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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