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(...) Agreed. I never specify font, only size and face. However I HAVE seen people (including here at Lugnet(tm) I think but I could be too wrong and too lazy to check, I am in a hotel and paying for my 800# access) name off a bazillion font types (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Changing fonts is playing with fire. It's possible to do it right, but it's tricky. Some of my rules of thumb: 1. The best way to specify a Helvetica-like face is to use <FONT FACE="Geneva,Arial,Helvetica"> in that order. Geneva is the for the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I shouldn't say Verdana _only_ looks good at -1 and -2. It also looks good at very large sizes. It just looks terrible at the default default size. But YMMV, of course. Sometimes people change their settings from the installation defaults (the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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On this past discussion of fonts, I began to wonder... I looked at the page of common MS fonts, and the main font on my webpage is not listed. Its called Papyrus LET, and the other font I use a lot is Comic Sans MS (which is fairly common, I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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I see Times New Roman. I have a lot of fonts, but not Papyrus LET. John Matthews John DiRienzo <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote in message news:FKAEL6.Mx5@lugnet.com... (...) webpage (...) my (...) want (...) different. (...) some (...) and (...) had (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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John Matthews wrote in message ... (...) Thanks, John, I went through a whole bunch of fonts, and the Papyrus font looked really cool, and I didn't even stop to think if others could see it. Eventually, I'll have to redo the page... that'll be fun! (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) There's nuthin' wrong with specifying the Papyrus font, in case someone does have it installed. I'd also specify something more generic ("serif", "sans-serif", "cursive") in addition, so you're sure what the fallback will be. Both Netscape and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) If you really prefer that font, why not make the titles in that font into low-bandwith gif files? (Images of text are easy to get down to less than 2Kb.) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Or perhaps at your front page, suggest that folks download the font and provide a link to it. That is what I did with Verdana a couple of years ago. I suspect most folks have picked up since then. It is a Great Font! Of course Papyrus looks good as (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Be careful with that -- few good fonts are freely redistributable. (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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Thanks John and Matthew, I made Verdana the back up font on some of my pages, I will have to finish the rest sometime. Verdana does look pretty good, and its shipped on Mac and Win now. I will look into making the font downloadable... sometime. -- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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