Tahoma Font

[Bob Sneidar]

I should have prefaced it with, "In the spirit of rapid application development...". :-)

On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Warren Samples wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
> 
>> 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows
>> and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors.  2. Create an
>> installer that includes the truetype fonts you use, and install them via a
>> shell. This of course may mean licensing the fonts you want to use, unless
>> you choose public domain fonts. 3. Script for the detected operating
>> system and as Scott said, brute force it. This is just ugly, but is
>> probably the most flexible way to go about it.
> 
> 
> I have seen font surveys and lists which suggest that even the popular web-safe font list is not as bullet-
> proof as most sources imply. 
> 
> I Don't understand why detecting the system and setting the fonts accordingly should seem ugly to anyone. It 
> seems like a perfectly natural thing to do. It's certainly not something that needs to be rediscovered every 
> time one starts a project. Play with it a little one day, and store your script snippet. You can do it! It 
> doesn't strike me as philosophically any different from bundling a font and forcing the use of that font, btw; 
> just forces you to jump a different (low) hurdle :)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Warren
> 
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