Re: Question

Paul,

Mac will display fonts with pieces missing below 10pt. Not just fuzzy, but
actually with pieces of the font missing. I learned that the hard way as one
who prefers smaller type. When I specify type, I use % so that people who
have their defaults set will still have some control. Mac loses this (starts
losing pieces) at 85% though on body font and that is the maximum for me for
the way the sans serif fonts look on a PC.

I now use more serif fonts, since they tend to provide better line spacing
at default settings, which I like to use as much as I can. I prefer Verdana,
but when I am designing for a general crowd, I use the serif. After much
testing I have found that this provides the best solution across all
platforms with CSS.

On the headlines: I use Arial/Helvetica for my headline settings for just
the reason you described. It seems to take the size increase with less
damage. Even without the anitaliasing, I find that Verdana is a bit too
"round" to look nice at large sizes.

I too have spent a great deal of time researching this, hoping to stumble on
the "perfect" answer. To date, it is still elusive.

Wendy


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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Wilson <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: <rsimmons8(at)earthlink.net>; html <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Question


I was watching this particular thread with interest.  I worked on the CSS
thing for over six months off and on before I got something to work right.
I eventually found a good piece of code for an external .CSS file that
seemed to work OK.  After liberating this code I started making it better
from experimentation and reading up on the subject. Everyone was talking
about  .CSS and complaining, but few seemed to be able to get it working
right.

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