I have been following this thread with interest. Some fonts are thicker
than others. You have character spaceing. For example, Arial Narrow
takes up less room than Arial and Arial black. I have come across some
low vision individuals that only rquire thicker fonts and a little more
spacing
Angus MacKinnon related:
Internet Explorer defaults to a 12 point font and
Firefox defaults to a 16 point font.
Of course, fonts are adjustable in the browser (with some exceptions for hard
coded fonts) so a user's preferences may be an override in many cases.
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At 6/22/2009 08:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your
example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's
choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent big
money on high quality but
At 6/22/2009 08:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your
example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's
choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent big
money on high quality but
Paul Novitski wrote:
I submit that installing a font on one's computer establishes a
concrete desire to view text styled in that font to be displayed in
that font.
More usually, it establishes that the system administrator for that
computer installed a piece of software that came with the
Oh, it doesn't stop with fonts! Some website producers are arrogant enough
to force text and images on the visitor instead of allowing them to enjoy
the default text and images they have written for their own browser. It's
shocking; simply shocking. If people actually wanted to read the text,
To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your
example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's
choice of fonts,
Yes, that's the point of typography and meeting the requirements of a client
specification. Provided it's readable I don't see
Paul Novitski declared:
plain text HTML cannot force fonts on us that we
do not choose to see.
Hmm... wonder if that explains why WEFT and BITS never quite caught on... ;~)
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matt andrews wrote:
2009/6/22 Mark Harris w...@tracs.co.nz
The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started, is the
perceived need to make the web like the printed page. That, and the desire to
make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers.
Let the control go to the user,
At 6/22/2009 12:24 AM, matt andrews wrote:
2009/6/22 Mark Harris w...@tracs.co.nz
The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I
started, is the perceived need to make the web like the printed
page. That, and the desire to make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers.
Let
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:27 pm Mark Harris wrote:
Henry Mencia wrote:
So you just have serif or sans serif in the font-family?
Pretty much, unless a client specifies otherwise (and I'll try to talk
them around).
The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started,
is
On 2009/06/22 12:58 (GMT+1000) James Ellis composed:
Fonts : Nothing to stop anyone from specifying a font list and the generic
family at the end of the list. That way you can aim for the font you like
best, then the font which most people have (they may be the same) and then
less common
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/06/22 12:58 (GMT+1000) James Ellis composed:
To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your
example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's
choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent
On 22/06/2009, at 3:58 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:
hi.
just looked at my fonts.
need the following fonts:
arial, helvitica, sans-serif and verdana.
do not have these fonts for windows vista.
think that was the problem, why not saying the name.
can you help?
Hi Marvin - I'm going to assume that
Adding to what Tim said,
It's possible that you're experiencing problems with Helvetica just because
of a typo (you had written Helvitica). Also, it does not come with Windows
Vista or Microsoft Office.
Hope this helps!
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tim Snadden li...@snadden.com wrote:
On
Joshua Street wrote:
Adding to what Tim said,
It's possible that you're experiencing problems with Helvetica just
because of a typo (you had written Helvitica). Also, it does not come
with Windows Vista or Microsoft Office.
However, If your user has it installed and doesn't have Arial
Mark,
So you just have serif or sans serif in the font-family?
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Harris w...@tracs.co.nz wrote:
Joshua Street wrote:
Adding to what Tim said,
It's possible that you're experiencing problems with Helvetica just
because of a typo (you had written
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