[thelist] designed challenged

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Wed Jun 27 21:03:11 CDT 2001


> I think the real question should be:
> what's a gracefully cascading font list to declare with CSS that
> does MOST things for MOST users on MOST platforms. e.g.:
> Attractiveness, readability, scalability, contrast (roman/bold/ital)

hi robert

good question


i've been using

     verdana,geneva,arial,helvetica

as recommended here --

   http://users.hit.net/~bobbau/platforms/MacArialFonts/

however, i had a discussion about this with an acquaintance of mine (not on
this list, i don't think) who is an experienced mac user, and his opinion
was --

>I've read the above content before, its helpful, but some of what he
>suggests isn't a good idea. That approach solves most of the problems
>but creates some others. At the above URL, he does suggest that usin
>Verdana is a second choice option, he didn't include it in the "best"
>option. Verdana winds up taking much more space on a page than geneva or
>arial do. I found that if I specified geneva, arial, I'd get a layout on
>a Mac that looked more similar to the layout on the PC because Geneva on
>the Mac occupied a somewhat similar amount of space as Arial does on the
>PC. Because the fonts are fairly platform specific, it performs the
>equivalent of an OS sniff. If you put verdana in first, both platforms
>have it now and you'll get quite a different layout with longer sections
>of body text when displayed on the two different platforms. I like
>verdana for larger font sizes, but tend not to use it on smaller text
>when there's a lot of it.
>
>your milage may vary


so there ya go


anybody else?


rudy





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