Just baiting us, aren't you? Trebuchet is actually a beautiful font, IMHO, tragically ruined by the lowercase g and the ampersand (&), both of which are ugly, attention-grabbing glyphs. It's a deal-breaker for me<http://www.kpao.org/2008/03/trebuchet-a-font-ruined-by-two.html> .
And while the Microsoft C fonts are indeed nice, I highly doubt "the right folks" will license them for free to the world. Times are quite different than they were 13 years ago at the start of the "Internet Tidal Wave<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Internet%20Tidal%20Wave%20memo>". But what I don't understand is why others haven't picked up the slack here. There are some really nice free fonts out there (many of which have been featured on Smashing Magazine<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/>) that could easily be included in Firefox installs—like these for example<http://www.kpao.org/2007/12/best-free-fonts.html> . Or how about Adobe? They have amazing reach with both Flash and Reader, and they also have an amazing library of typefaces <http://www.adobe.com/type/>. How about Adobe picking up some slack here and giving a bit back to the Internet community that made it the powerhouse it is today? Or Google? They licensed the Droid fonts <http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_11_12.html>for their Android phone platform. How about extending use of these fonts to computers as well? Ah well. I'm still going to use SIFR <http://novemberborn.net/sifr3> for my designs. ·Dave On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jeffrey D. Gimzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i thought Arial and Trebuchet were the two best fonts in the world, > and that's why everyone (including me!) uses them ? > > jd > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
