Re: Font Question

The quality of fonts may vary wildly. Free fonts might be poorly designed,=
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really good fonts might cost you about $60. per font, and you would only=20
use these for press applications where you can control the product from=20
start to finish. On the web, you cannot do this.

I think that sometimes you computer fakes the italic. If the font does not=
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come with an Italic, you still can usually tip a vertical font over and=20
make it look like italic, where as a well designed font will have an italic=
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version on your hard drive. Next, you have to presume that your viewer is=20
using the same font, otherwise his computer will generate some degradation=
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of the image. Using the most basic fonts such as New Times Roman, and=20
forgetting about other nice fonts such as Cheltenham or Bodoni will ensure=
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that a greater percentage of your users will have the font that you=
 specified.


At 12:31 AM 7/9/00 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello listers,
>I've noticed that fonts don't render very well using italics(at least in
>WWW browsers they don't). This fact has also been confirmed by other
>members of HWG. I wondered: "Do some fonts render better as italic text
>than others?" Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Best wishes,
>Lauri V=E4in
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