[thelist] Mac fonts compared to IBM

Mike Migurski mike at cloudfactory.org
Thu Sep 21 16:47:33 CDT 2000


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.

-mike.

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Marlene Bruce wrote:

>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:46:37 -0400
>From: Marlene Bruce <marlene.bruce at colemandesign.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>Subject: RE: [thelist] Mac fonts compared to IBM
>
>I have a list of them, as well as font samples at different sizes, at:
>
>http://members.evolt.org/marlene/macfonts/
>
>As an aside, the screen shots should make it obvious that Helvetica is *not*
>a font to use (esp. in italic), and that Geneva is the better choice (when
>you're specifying fonts like: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif).
>
>HTH,
>Marlene
>
>> ----------
>> From: 	Christopher Ditty
>>      Can anyone tell me what fonts are on a Mac and how they relate to a
>>      Windows machine?  In particular, I need to know what a courier font
>> is
>>      compared to on the Mac.
>> 
>>      Is there a website that has this information handy?
>
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