OT: Elegant Cross Platform Fonts

[Igor de Oliveira Couto]

Dear Sannyasin,


> Does someone have a short, fairly reliable, list of fonts that are 
> likely to be found both on Mac and Windows machines? I suppose I could 
> look at one of our windows machines here, but I am thinking someone of 
> you has already been down this road and will already have a definitive 
> list.
>
> In particular I am looking for a cross-platform font that is a little 
> prettier and more elegant that Arial, for use as a large display font 
> where I am dynamically changing the text from a customProperty and 
> don't want to make all those text displays as images in Photoshop 
> ahead of time (too much work and too much data) In this context we 
> don't have really tight size parameters we have to worry about as we 
> will just give it plenty of room (unlike when making small buttons 
> where the type size differences for the same font across platforms can 
> be a headache.)
>
>

Fonts available 'by default' to both MacOS 10.2 and Windows Me - other 
cross-platform users, please, correct me if I'm wrong:

Arial:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Arial Black:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Comic Sans MS:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Century Gothic:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Copperplate Gothic:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Courier:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Impact:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Lucida Handwriting:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Tahoma:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Times New Roman:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Trebuchet MS:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Verdana:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

I do believe the different platforms handle typesetting in different 
ways, so that the same block of text might flow differently, and occupy 
a different amount of space, in different platforms - even if using the 
same fonts. Therefore, it might be a good idea to account for this 
difference when designing the interface, and leave a bit of extra room!

I hope this helps!

Kind Regards,
--
Igor de Oliveira Couto
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