Opinion on this font...

[Robert Adams]

The mission board at church is designing the bulletin for our missions conference. At the last meeting, they seemed to be leaning heavily towards using the font Bauhaus 93; seen in the attached picture for the text throughout the entire buletin/print publications. We are doing the theme Riding Strong, discussed in this thread.

I really dislike the font, and think it would be very difficult to read if used for the bulletin. I've suggested other fonts to them, and everyone seems to go back to the Bauhaus 93. What is your opinion on the font? Would it be your choice? How do I sway them to change it?

[soulcast]

You have already realized the problem with it's use. Maybe draft a demo bulletin that shows why it's the wrong font. ... and it is

[dansphoto]

Rob I also do NOT like this font. It may be very hard to read this text and the message may be lost due to the choice of a bad font.
You could ask the team developing the bulletins to have their Grandmother read a letter in this font. If Grandma did not have a headache after I would be very surprised.

Ok for headlines, awful for copy or anything else. Bulky, rounded, condensed letterforms aren't easy on the eyes unless they are large. I know nothing about your church, but if you have any older people, they will have a hard time processing very much if it is all in this font.

Forget readability for a minute. Anything styled after the bauhaus style is tacky when not used in the right design. To me, bauhaus has always had a cheesy disco feel to it. Its hard to take that font seriously. My suggestion would be to go with something that has a slight more traditional look to it. You don't have to go with a serif font, but something that isn't as stylized as this. My thoughts would be, for something like a missions conference, pick something that doesn't look as dated (unless that is the look you are going for) for the headlines etc. and pick a more standard font for all the heavy reading.

[Chris Ross]

That'd be one of those that I'd pick up, try to keep anyone from seeing I was laughing, and put right back down because I'm too lazy and it's not worth my effort to try and read it.

[[Admin] osborn4]

I like the font and I use it, but only occasionally as a heading in the announcement loop.

There is no way this would be usable as a text font. I think the best idea, mentioned above, is to show them what a full page of that font would look like.

And I also agree about the serious comment. It is an 80s disco look. Not something I would use for a serious application.

If they are set on the font, then tell them the theme should match the look, so the new missions theme is, "Love, Liberty, Disco".

[nathandiehl]

That is NOT a copy font.
The only way to convince the board is to draft a 'demo' using the same size font you would use, and then present the demo to the board, hand it to one of the members (preferably a well-known good communicator) and ask them to read it out loud to the rest of the board...

that should show them!