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Re: Different fonts in webpages
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Thu, 28 Oct 1999 03:47:20 GMT
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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...
> 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 guess). So, when people look at • my
> main web page, what kind of font do they see? My page looks the way I • want
> it to on my PC, but I am afraid others are seeing something a lot • different.
> The Papyrus font looks a lot like fancy calligraphy and seems appropriate
> for a Castle page, but it must look like crap with the generic fonts on • some
> systems. If you can tell me what you guys see when you look at my page, • and
> if you think it should be changed, please let me know. Also, on my Castle
> trading list (which is like 50KB) I am sure removing the fancy font would
> also reduce the size by 20KB or so because of the way its set up - so I • had
> thought about removing the font for that page before anyway, or splitting
> the page into a few pages. Lastly, since I never asked, are there any • other
> glaring problems on my page(s)? Thanks for the help.
> --
> Have fun!
> John
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> Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > 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 (helvetica, geneva, ariel yada yada) to
> > > get one sans serif font and ditto for Times New Roman or its • workalikes.
> >
> > 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 Mac, which doesn't have Arial, and
> > Mac users claim that Geneva looks better to them at small sizes than • either
> > Helvetica or Arial. Arial is only there for Winblows systems. Helvetica • is
> > for non-Winblows and non-Mac systems. That pretty much covers all the
> > platforms.
> >
> > 2. If you want Verdana, it's OK to leave out Geneva and Arial because • both
> > Macs and Winblows are shipping with Verdana these days. Put in Helvetica • as
> > a back-up in case Verdana isn't found,
> >
> > <FONT FACE="Verdana,Helvetica">
> >
> > and optionally include Geneva if you think someone might be viewing your • page
> > on an old Mac without Verdana and you care what it looks like.
> >
> > 3. If you change out of the default serif font -- say, via
> >
> > <FONT FACE="Georgia"> or <FONT FACE="Verdana">
> >
> > beware that <PRE> and <TT> don't work anymore inside of that <FONT> tag • on
> > some Winblows systems: the text doesn't come out in the default • monospace
> > font (i.e. Courier) but instead comes out in the enlclosed <FONT> face! • %^(
> >
> > This is broken in both Nutscrape Navigator 4.5 and Internet Exploiter • 3.0,
> > maybe other versions as well. It's a little bit worse in NN than in • MSIE,
> > but it only works correctly in MSIE if you use a virtual font name like
> > "Times" or "Helvetica" rather than an actual font name like "Times New • Roman"
> > or "Arial".
> >
> > 4. Georgia is a really nice alternative to Times New Roman, but, unlike
> > Times, it looks terrible next to Courier -- the sizes are too different.
> > (Georgia is a bit larger than Times.) So if you use <TT> or <PRE> on a • page,
> > stick with the default fonts for body text. (Helvetica section headers • or
> > titles look OK though.)
> >
> > 5. Verdana only looks good at <FONT SIZE="-1"> or <FONT SIZE="-2">. • It's
> > too thin at the default font size. Unfortunately, if you specify -1 and • you
> > don't specify Helvetica as a back-up, then Times looks terrible at -1. • (And
> > Times looks really terrible at -2.)
> >
> > --Todd
>
>
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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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| 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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