Cross Platform Fonts

[Ray Horsley]

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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