Cross Platform Fonts

[Phil Davis]

Two words, Ray: White Space!

Well-placed white space can improve the user's grasp of on-screen 
information while also letting your fields to be bigger than they might 
otherwise need to be, to allow for slight metric differences between 
similar fonts (or the same font on different platforms).

Other issues can also come into play, like the slightly different origin 
points of text in a field (distance from topLeft of field to baseline of 
first char of text) on different platforms.

If you need absolute consistency or control, it's really not cheating if 
you decide to use screenshots of text for your labeling of things. I've 
built entire applications on that premise.

My apologies for not exactly answering your question, but maybe this 
will help.

Phil Davis


Ray Horsley wrote:
> Another basic question:  What fonts are good for deploying stacks 
> cross platform?  That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start 
> unexpected word wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on Mac.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray Horsley 

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Phil Davis

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