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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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