Standardize Font Appearance

[Bob Sneidar]

Oooh thanks Tom. 

Bob S


> On Sep 2, 2022, at 09:40 , Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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