On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:29 PM, davor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How do you tell if the font is too tall and what is the impact of >> choosing such a font? Does it cause the line-height to increase to >> accommodate the font or does it just fill in the whitespace and cause >> the text to look jumbled? > > In short, Verdana (and Helvetica) have greater x-height then Arial. > Also Verdana is very "wide" typeface. If you take a body of text in > Verdana and Arial you'll notice that Arial (or Helvetica) text usually > has greater count of words per line and it's somewhat easier to follow > text line with your eyes (you could perhaps say that text has better > legibility). Same legibility using Verdana can be achieved by giving > her more line height.
Hi, thanks for your reply but I didn't get the info I was hoping for. Here are some more details: I manage a website for an organization who supports free software and I'm investigating giving a preference to free fonts over non-free fonts (free as in speech - so covered under an open source license). In my comparison the x-height was not something I'd worried about because I assumed, possibly incorrectly, that the height of the font dictated the line-height. So using a contrived example, FontXYZ tends to be very readable on low ppi devices (< 100 ppi) because of its emphasis on vertical and horizontal strokes with no serifs. Therefore I might choose it based solely on that fact and not look at the bigger picture of line-height and gray space. This is why I was curious and asked how to tell if a font was too tall and what the impact of choosing such a font is. Presumably it's reduced white space but would love to know if my assumption is wrong. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
