Hi Felix, What would you recommend as a Verdana equivalent / replacement font on a Linux machine? It has to be a prevalent font with similar readability.
>From that I'd perhaps suggest: Font-family: Verdana [PC], ???? [Linux], Helvetica [Mac], sans-serif Or fallback to: Font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif What do you think? mike 2k:)2 <marquee><blink> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] site: http://www.webSemantics.co.uk </marquee></blink> -----Original Message----- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2005 03:04 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] font-familly: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif Mike Foskett's response to another thread referred to http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/useful_css_snippets/#leveller that applies the equivalent of the subject rule to body of a stylesheet designed to get rid of most UA default styles. I'm wondering how many people who use this rule have any real clue of its ramifications on non-M$ systems. On M$ systems, Helvetica is usually mapped to Arial. Because Arial is scalable, the difference between the two specified fonts isn't particularly large. On OS X among Macs at least, Helvetica is apparently scalable as well, so again there won't be much apparent difference. However, Helvetica on Linux seems traditionally to be a bitmapped font. This in a not insignificant number of cases will result in rendering results quite a bit different from what was probably the intended result of the fallback font, since most Linux systems are not equipped with Verdana. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/verdvhelve.html provides a look at Helvetica and Verdana together on 2 Mac & 4 Linux browsers. http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/Font/font-verd-v-helve.html is the foundation of the screenshots there, though most were taken using a modified version that resorted according to approximate size. I say approximate largely because Helvetica is frequently taller, but normally narrower than Verdana. Since Geneva seems to be preferred to Helvetica on Mac, and Helvetica usually doesn't exist on M$, is there any good reason to ever specify Helvetica as a fallback font, or even as a first choice? -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
