In my experience, most fonts in Windows look bad anyway. I don't think it would be worth the effort embed a helvetica clone, arial is already a clone of helvetica. However, when firefox 3.1 comes out embedding fonts is something to consider. There's an outstanding article on the subject here http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/10/font-face-in-ie-making-web-fonts-work .
Josh Sean DALY wrote: > Some information about free/libre fonts: http://www.unifont.org > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Adding to the visual problems is that I don't have Helvetica installed on my >>> machine. I think I'm getting the standard, ugly Arial that comes with >>> Windows. >>> Perhaps we can embed a Creative Commons licensed Helvetica clone in the >>> site? >>> >> Thanks for your feedback, Nate. Installing Helvetica is a great idea. Can we >> get an open source license? >> >> >>>> 3. It never says what Sugar is. "Sugar is a computer operating >>>> environment for students, designed to replace or complement existing >>>> desktop user interfaces." The website never states anything plainly, >>>> opting instead for this long list of dull incomplete aphorisms, which link >>>> to phrases that are _still_ not valid sentences. Even aggregating all the >>>> information in that list, I would not be able to tell you what Sugar is. >>>> >>> I agree that there needs to be a promintently displayed page that attempts >>> to >>> describe Sugar in a few paragraphs. I find the current list of >>> ...sentences... >>> to be very intimidating for some reason. People aren't used to reading >>> content >>> organized like this. >>> >> I think we can work on making these keyphrases more succinct and meaningful. >> In essence, they attempt to describe Sugar dynamically (through the contents >> of the site) without the need for a static mission statement. If you have >> any thoughts on better keyphrases, please let us know! >> >> >> Christian >> >> >>> Finally, let me say thanks to the folks who have worked on the site. It may >>> not be perfect but it's a great step in the right direction. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nate >>> >>> >> -- >> >> Christian Marc Schmidt >> >> [email protected] >> >> Pentagram Design, Inc. >> 204 Fifth Avenue >> New York, NY 10010 >> 212/ 802 0248 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
