Specialty Fonts on Mobile -- OK? or Stay Away?

[Mike Kerner]

We've bundled fonts in order to get various icons.  So far no problems.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> We have a new UI/UX designer working in Sketch/Invision/Zeplin  which is a
> marvelous universe for design collaboration, and getting from her designs
> to a card layout in LC is easy enough.
>
> But she has chosen to use a font called
>
> KohinoorDevanagari
>
> which not only has Devanagari script but a very lovely roman font that
> will looks lovely, sans serif, very clear and efficient in terms of chars
> per inch and legibility on tight line heights
>
> I have never, ever use the font bundling option with Livecode, but besides
> this one I have need of some other specialty fonts/scripts for specific
> modules.
>
> But this KohinoorDevanagari is everywhere, , which she has used for every
> label, button, control, text field, menu in the UI.
>
> My question is this: for those have tried using specialty fonts on mobile.
> Does it work well for you across platforms?
>
> My "gut" instinct is telling me to stay with native fonts, but I can't
> tell if that is just my resistance to the added complexity and additional
> overhead talking.
>
> What say you?
>
> "No problem go for it -- with any nice font you like."
>
> OR
>
> "Nope, I tried that, you don't want to go down that path because…. A,B,C…"
>
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