Re: Font Question

My $0.02 worth,

In my experience, the safest route is to let the end user's system define
fonts and not make the font a design funtion, other then simple things like
bold and headers. If you need to have a specific font for design purposes,
use a graphic. They will look the same on all platforms (as far as I know
that is).

Edward Springer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: "Elias Thienpont" <elias(at)assumptionabbey.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Font Question


> May I respectfully point out that a font choice such as "New Times Roman"
> may not be such a good idea as it is a "Microsoft" - only - font.
>
> Now, what Elias says is *definitely accurate, using that font *will* help
a
> larger audience see your stuff as designed, but . . . Not until the advent
> (release) of Office 98 for MAC was this font available for the MAC
platform
> at all. As you can probably guess . . . Office 98 (for MAC) isn't exactly
a
> low end program in terms of its system demands. Thus, *most* of the MAC's
> in the public domain do not have office or the ability to run it - even if
> they wanted to for some strange reason ;-).
>
> Again, respectfully, I would propose that if you have a *need* to specify
a
> font in your on-line presentation you define multiple fonts that are
> similar in presentation so that most (if not all) viewers get as close to
> possible to your intended display, for example "arial, helvetica,
verdana".
>
> Oh. A side note: The down side of this is that *in my opinion* italic
> arial, looks like a crack addict with Parkinson's disease wrote it. Yea,
> really bad. But my intent is not to suggest the use of ANY specific font,
> just that if you *need* to specify one, make it _multiple_ similar fonts.
>
> HTH,
> Fuzzy
> P.S. That was NOT a slam against folks with Parkinson's Disease. My mother
> had it and it is a very, very, terrible affliction.
>
>
> At 07:52 AM 7/9/00 -0600, Elias Thienpont wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> Using the most basic fonts such as New Times Roman, and
> >forgetting about other nice fonts such as Cheltenham or Bodoni will
ensure
> >that a greater percentage of your users will have the font that you
> specified.
> [ . . . ]
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