On 14-Apr-00 18:22:59, Don Cox wrote in Voyager:
>> Ok, if you still can't spot the difference, compare e.g. the "a" from
>> both fonts.
>OK, the serif is slightly larger in Helvetica. Will that show on
>screen?
Maybe not so much is you use quite small fonts. Anyway, it's not an excuse
for not having a real Helvetica truetype font. (I use a bitmapped version
for now)
>> Well, I have yet to see an exact copy of the Helvetica font.
>They are intended to be exact copies. You will probably find that the
>computer versions of Helvetica itself are not exactly like the
>designer's original drawings, either.
If you worked with CAD/DTP etc. for a company, and a customer had a logo
which uses Helvetica. Suppose they didn't have a digital copy of their logo
and you had to make a digital version using truetype fonts (as that gives
better results sometimes than scanning it)
Would you really use an Arial font then?
(I do that almost 2-3 times a week)
>I do think that for 99.9% of Amiga users looking at a web page, they can
>be treated as identical. (If there are 1000 Amiga users.)
The whole point with FONT FACE tag is to be able to view the page exactly as
intended by the designer, a page that was intenden to be viewed with a
Helvetica font, isn't going to look exactly the same with Arial.
--
Trond K. Tveit Active Amiga user since 1987
aka Dr. Spooky This is how my AmigaOS v3.5 looks today
Team AMIGA http://www.bigfoot.com/~drspooky/screengrabs/
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