OT: Elegant Cross Platform Fonts

[Signe Marie Sanne]

>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.)

I used to set textfonts to Geneva on Mac and MS Sans Serif (up to 17) 
and Arial (for higher) on Windows. Then to my dismay I discovered 
that on Windows XP the font MS Sans Serif has disappeared, or perhaps 
just changed name to Microsoft Sans Serif. This meant that I have to 
change the script lines of hundreds of programs (sigh!). I have now 
started using only VERDANA which is a distinct and nice font and has 
been found on both platforms for some years now. The textsize and 
textheight varies just a little from one platform to another.  At 
least it's worth a try!

Signe Marie Sanne
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