[thelist] designed challenged

Boerner, Brian J brian.j.boerner at lmco.com
Wed Jun 27 16:15:50 CDT 2001


If it's not too much trouble - detect the platform and make a stylesheet for
each

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Stetser [mailto:lists at icongarden.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:11 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] designed challenged


[Hoping I'll get to send this BEFORE AT&T at Home's promised cable 
fixing date of 7/11, more than 2 weeks from today >:(]

Arial looks OK on a PC, but on a Mac, especially at lower sizes, it's 
a god-awful font. Worse, however, is that bold text does not show up 
at smaller sizes - it looks exactly the same as the non-bold Arial. 
Verdana, ugly as it may be for some, seems to work better.. I just 
wish we had some really nice x-platform fonts we could rely upon! :)

Jake
>
>We try to use Arial where ever possible.  It is a clean, easy to read font
>face that scales well.  We do use other fonts, such as verdana, to give
some
>pages a different 'feel', such as news articles.  I think that the easier
>the page is to read, the more likely the visitor will actually read what
you
>posted.  Sure it has to have enough eye candy to attract them, but it's the
>content that you want the to actually grab.
>
>Brian W. King

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