[thelist] designed challenged

Ron Jourard jourard at defencelaw.com
Wed Jun 27 22:38:32 CDT 2001


rudy,

is that what i have on my site?

Ron Jourard
.
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] designed challenged


> > 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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