[thelist] Common Fonts

[Jacob Stetser]

>I would also say if you want the look of arail. Which is narrower than
>Verdana specify Geneva first, as the face.

+1 :)
>
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>From: Jacob Stetser [mailto:lists at icongarden.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:48 AM
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>Subject: Re: [thelist] Common Fonts
>
>
>For the love of God and all that is readable, please do not use Arial
>if you wish your site to be usable on Macs. (I've said this before
>but I bring it up again because it bears repeating). Any Mac that has
>Arial installed also has Verdana, so you can safely use Verdana
>instead.
>
>Why not use Arial? It's too thin and tall and on the Mac at lower
>sizes Arial emboldened does not look any different from Arial
>regular. So those nice bold headlines you come up with? They look the
>same as everything else in Arial.
>
>So use Verdana, Helvetica, san-serif as your choices if you want to
>be xplatform.
>
>Thanks! This has been a public service message brought to you by me!
>
>Jake
>>
>>These days, you can usually get away with Arial, Times, Courier, and
>>Helvetica. Quite often people have Verdana as well, as it's a free
>>one usually installed with just about any MS product (including
>>browsers).
>>
>>I have no idea about Linux, but I'm sure someone will chime in soon.
>
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