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use) such as Open Sans Condensed and Miso (available, for example,
from http://fontsquirrel.com ) . Gill Sans Extra Condensed is used in
Figure 5-14 . Be careful, though—the narrower the font, the larger the
font size required to maintain readability.
Figure 5-13: Condensed fonts are 25 percent to 50 percent narrower
than standard fonts—useful for labeling graphs.
Figure 5-14: This is the same family graph using Gill Sans Extra
Condensed. You can reduce the amount of overlap by using narrow fonts.
Short labels —Long labels can often be shortened, although shorter
labels may not automatically exist in the source data. In the e-mail
 
 
 
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