Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Michael Stevens wrote: > >> Calibri I have but do not have installed all the time and use it maybe a >> couple times a month. And I've never heard of Vrinda. > > I picked up Vrinda after considering the material at > http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml > and noticing that Vrinda is the only widely available sans-serif font where > letters are small as compared with the font size. So it's the best backup > for Calibri, the font I'd really like to use. As you can see from > http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/vrinda-bengali.aspx > Vrinda was really designed for Bengali writing, but it has Latin 1 > characters too, so it might serve as a fallback font when you don't need > other characters. I guess the Bengali orientation explains the large > intrinsic line-height.
Well, in my 20+ years of using computers, including desktop publishing, graphic and web design work - I've never used a computer that had either Calibri or Vrinda on it. And I used to be a real font junky! (That spans every version of Windows, Mac OS7/8/9 and OS X, one version of UNIX and several distros of Linux.) -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
