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Font Styles and Sizes

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What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes

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SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
How are the page margins?
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SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?

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If you're administrator on your computer, you can download tiny fonts (recommended) or even make new fonts (probably no experience).
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John Richardsim wrote:
SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
How are the page margins?
I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
bernard wrote:
SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?

The things I think about when I'm in the bathroom...
XD, I would do that but I already have a pretty sweet color-coding system worked out.
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:If you're administrator on your computer, you can download tiny fonts (recommended) or even make new fonts (probably no experience).
Any specific tiny font suggestions?

EDITS- to avoid double and triple posting
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SOnerd wrote:
John Richardsim wrote:
SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
How are the page margins?
I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... 633d732088
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bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.

Fill the printer margin with handwriting. If that's not enough, remove stuff that you believe to be less valuable than what you want to add, whether it be basic stuff that you have committed to memory or stuff that you feel is very unlikely to be asked about (well, the least likely of everything else to be asked about).
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John Richardsim wrote:
bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.
Would proctors allow that?
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John Richardsim wrote:
bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.
Are you allowed to bring 3-D glasses to a competition? :lol: Just wondering.
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John Richardsim wrote:
bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.
Would proctors allow that?
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SOnerd wrote:
John Richardsim wrote: How are the page margins?
I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... 633d732088
Thanks, UTF-8!

EDIT- More attempts to avoid double-posting.
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