Standardize Font Appearance

[Tom Glod]

Bob, if you really wanna think about the user, check out resource such as
this:

https://www.vandelaydesign.com/google-font-pairings/

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 11:10 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, ever since my Master's thesis with LiveCode/RunRev, I
> have always set up buttons with fonts the way I want them on whatever
> platform, imported snapshots of those buttons, and used those images as
> buttons.
>
> No stress, No mess!
>
> On Fri, 2 Sept 2022, 18:00 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > I read a blog some years back why it is so difficult to get nything on
> > Windows to look like it does on the Mac. It is true that Windows renders
> > fonts differently that Mac, so "exactly the same" remains the realm of
> the
> > imagined. But you can get close. My big issue was that using Arial,
> labels
> > that were right aligned and auto fitted on the Mac would overflow the
> left
> > f the label on Windows.
> >
> > Now I am using Aclonica for form headers, Acme for labels and Actor for
> > fields, buttons and grids. (Didn't have to look far did I?) I'm pretty
> > happy now with the rendering of each on both platforms.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2022, at 23:18 , Neville Smythe via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Standardising fonts, so that one would no longer have to check that every
> > label and field carefully crafted on the Mac to fit text precisely would
> > not have missing pixels or whole words wrapped out of sight on Windows
> > because of different font metrics, sounds like a great idea. But the
> > reality of the way systems render fonts seems to complicate things:
> >
> > I set up a test standalone with the Google fonts NotoSans-regular.ttf and
> > NotoSerif-regular.ttf installed. A label and and single line text field
> > were set up to be exactly the right size to fit some text using Arial
> font
> > on a Mac (Monterey). Then the labels and field were set to use NotoSans
> or
> > NotoSerif fonts.
> >
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