On 14 May 2013, at 04:37, Appa Rao Mulpuri <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any specific reason not to use "Trebuchet MS"? I faced some issues with the > few components (ilke Table Header cell, NS Button) text vertical center > alignment except that Look and feel wise its equivalent to "Lucida Grande". > And also both the fonts is taking the equal size for the same text. Yes there is now a confusion of very similar fonts. Many were done by Microsoft with tweaks to original fonts made to make them look 'good' (in someone's opinion, or was it just marketing) on the computer screens of the 1990s. This shows the MS philosophy of bending the natural world to suit their technology, not improving technology to suit the world. So they designed fonts to look good on crappy screens. Apple on the other hand came along and said "we like these beautiful fonts, we don't want to change them, so let's make the screens better". Another reason MS designed all these wacky fonts was licence fees. While bleating on about people stealing software with copies and depriving them of fees, they copied fonts, subtly changing a few pixels and the name to avoid licence fees. Arial it should be noted is just Helvetica, but you will notice some of the tops of letters are sloped instead of straight, actually making Arial less readable. Arial is now everywhere, it's a horrible font: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial There was another site screenfont.ca but it seems to have disappeared. I suspect trebuchet (a medieval catapult) is in the same category, and is a font, like Arial that will take years to kill off. We need to put font design back into the hands of artists, not technical people... or artists (like Matthew Carter) constrained by technologists. > > - Apparao > > From: Jens Alfke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 10:35:33 -0700 > To: Apparao <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font > > > On May 13, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Appa Rao Mulpuri > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I am working on an application which will display Same font (Trebuchet MS) > throughout the Application. I have changed in all places except the following > ones > > Window Tool bar items text > Text in NSAlert panels > Tooltip text > > Please don’t do this. Unless you actually want your app to look like a > careless port, and give lots of people a bad first impression of it. > > —Jens > This email and any attachments are confidential, and may be legally > privileged and protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient > dissemination or copying of this email is prohibited. If you have received > this in error, please notify the sender by replying by email and then delete > the email completely from your system. Any views or opinions are solely those > of the sender. This communication is not intended to form a binding contract > unless expressly indicated to the contrary and properly authorised. Any > actions taken on the basis of this email are at the recipient's own risk. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/ianjoyner%40me.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
