Re: Best fonts for buttons, balloons, etc.?

by wmbaum(at)primary.net (WMBaum)

 Date:  Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:01:59 GMT
 To:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
 References:  primary
  todo: View Thread, Original
Thanks for all of the replies and great suggestions.. 

I'm still a little up in the air..

In case any of you are curious, I made a gif file indicating how a bunch of
fonts look when rendered white on black by Photoshop.. It's at
http://members.primary.net/~wmbaum/fonts.gif if you are interested in taking a
peek.. There seems to be quite a difference in the relative sizes of fonts of
the same point size, as well as legibility and the degree to which they look
gray..

--Bill



On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:19:31 GMT, I wrote:

>I need some input...
>
>What are your favorite fonts to use for graphic buttons, labels in images,
>etc.?   
>
>In particular, I am doing an imagemap which will have to have a number of
>labels on it in "balloons".  I need to choose a font that will be highly
>legible, anti-alias well, in as small a size as possible, to avoid covering up
>as much of the image below as possible.  Suggestions?
>
>TIA,
>
>--Bill

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