[thelist] Mac fonts compared to IBM

[Jacob Stetser]

Please use Verdana in preference to Arial. Especially at smaller 
screen sizes, Arial looks like crap on the Mac. Moreover, Arial 
doesn't embolden at all at smaller sizes on the Mac. Only solution to 
that is to specify Arial Black, and that's a kludge.

If you want to make Mac users happy, do some server side testing and 
use a Mac font like Geneva for Mac users, or use Verdana. Whatever 
you do, please avoid Arial in small text! :)

Jake

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>At 22:27 21/09/00, Mike Migurski wrote:
>>FYI, geneva was intended as a screen-optimized version of helvetica, as
>>New York is a screen-optimized version of Times. MS does not have these
>>fonts, though.
>
>Arial is pretty much the same idea as Geneva - a version of 
>Helvetica optimised
>for onscreen reading.
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>Cheers
>Martin
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