Just use Verdana. Helvetica is used by print designers just to say they're not using Arial. Bascially Arial ripped off Helvetica.
Since this is a debate that many designers are taught in school in typography class, they hate Arial. Since most print designers used Macs, this was another reason to hate Windows and its Arial. Since Verdana is used on both platforms, you can't "make a statement" when you use Verdana. Most designers in their heart know that on the Web, Verdana is a better choice for a web font. However, getting them to admit this out loud is difficult. Most of these same designers will vehemently fight against themeselves in defense of Helvetica, which is a very nice print font, by the way. Bottom line: Don't fight the almight typographer. Just ignore him. Take the time to change Helvetica to the much more logical choice of Verdana and all will be right in the world. that is all. On Oct 17, 1:53 pm, "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Jan Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Helvetica is one of the main reasons that Blueprint is a beautiful > > framework. When you use Helvetica it kind of lends its aesthetics to > > your work. > > It's OK. If we were talking about print I'd agree wholeheartedly but > on the screen I don't like it as much as some of the others that are > more universally available. > > But to be more practical for this list, I thought I'd point out this > resources which shows available fonts on different > computers:http://www.apaddedcell.com/web-fontssa > > -- > Matthew Nuzum > nwz2000 on freenode --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
