[thelist] designed challenged

[Daniel E. Boen]

Been thinking about this lately and have a few brief points to toss on the
table - 

I'm using verdana a lot these days, as it looks great in smaller
resolutions, bolded.  It seems to behave itself on all platforms.  Arial
doesn't satisfy me anymore ever, and I just can't use Times.

One thing I've been playing with is using inanimate Flash text for elements
of an otherwise standard HTML document - you can use any font you wish, you
can dumb it down to Flash 3 for broad compatibility, and it's guaranteed to
look the same on all platforms.  At the very least it's quicker, better
looking and smaller in size than image files and such.  It's an option that
I'm exploring.

Shameless OSX plug - the omniweb browser renders all fonts quite
beautifully.

- DB



Boerner, Brian J6/27/01 4:07 PMbrian.j.boerner at lmco.com

> 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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