On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:42:06 -1000 Came this utterance formulated by david to my mailbox:
> 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.) > Calibri is one of a set of Office 2007 fonts which can be obtained free with the new powerpoint viewer. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri It's use is expected to grow as uptake of office 2007, and this free viewer, gets established. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
