At 2:13 PM +0200 7/12/09, Daniel Wolf wrote:
Mark D. Lew wrote:
"More promising is Microsoft's new suite of ClearType fonts that have
been included with Office for the past couple years. These are the
ones that all start with C (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas,
Constantia, Corbel). I'm on Mac at home, and our computers at work
aren't that modern, so I haven't had a chance to experiment with any
of them and I'm not even sure how well they work in print. But
they're very fine fonts with excellent readability, so maybe worth a
try. If anyone has tried any of these for lyrics, I'd be curious to
know what you think."
Not for lyrics, since I'm also on Mac. But please allow me to cast a
dissenting vote. This past school year I started getting text
assignments (not music notation) turned in using Cambria, which is
apparently the default font in the most recent MSWord for Windows,
and I find it VERY difficult to read on screen. The default size is
too small for comfortable reading (and for some reason I have to
increase the zoom to 150% to read ANY text, probably due to some
setting on my computer that I don't understand as well as to aging
eyes). And in some cases it is in a bold version that is really ugly
and even more difficult to read. When I have to read and grade
student papers, I MUCH prefer good old Times, both on screen and
printed out, whatever its faults may be! And for readability on
Title pages and pinup posters, I always change Times to Palatino,
which is much more graceful and has a gorgeous italic version. I
don't have Cambria, and I really don't want it and wouldn't use it!
John
P.S. I lied! I just checked, and I DO have several forms of
Cambria, but I still wouldn't use it.
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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