On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/05/14 19:07, Peter Cowburn wrote:
>>
>> I can’t really say much on this.  On the few devices that I have
>> available, the fonts don’t show anything horrible. (*hugs apple-branded
>> devices*)  I’ve not personally seen anything bad on the few Windows
>> machines I use either, but the spread of OS versions, browsers, and
>> monitors across those doesn’t exactly cover a huge amount of what’s
>> available.
>
>
> Having been living these problems since the 1980's, it is somewhat
> surprising that M$ still have not cracked it. I've just had to upgrade code
> from XP to Windows 8.1, and the window sizes now make the code unusable.
> This was a regular problem from W3.1 to 98 to W2k to XP and would seem I
> have to recompile all the code yet again with the font sizes fixed. That is
> if the development environment would work on 8.1! :(
>
> Recent 'improvements' to Linux have created the same situation on some of
> that themeing and I am wondering if that is part of my own problem with the
> PHP site. The default sizes were not readable and so I had to adjust things,
> and a few sites using 'strange' fonts are simply unreadable, but it's not
> just the desktop machines that I have a problem with 'skinny' fonts. Both
> the Android tablets and the Samsung phone were difficult to read. THOSE are
> now more readable with the Fira Sans font!

So, to sum up: Fira Sans seems to be better than Source Sans Pro but
still has problems on some of your machines?

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