[thelist] designed challenged

[Jon Hall]

Out of curiosity how does Monospace look on the Mac? I've been using it more
recently because it looks good at a small font...

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Stetser" <lists at icongarden.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:10 PM
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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