Cross Platform Fonts

[Phil Davis]

That was Mark Schonewille who suggested Bit Stream Vera. Mark?
Phil


Ray Horsley wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Thanks for these ideas.  I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean simply 
> making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their 
> formattedHeight and formattedWidth.
>
> Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional 
> fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you suggested so they're 
> available inside my stand alone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> 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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