Re: In search of Helvetica
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:37:17 +0200
Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look
> > *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a
> > crafted bitmap available.
>
> I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect, and
> they're definitely my favorite for this purpose.
>
> I can show you an 800x600 picture of my mailer (Sylpheed); the message
> body font is Lucida Sans Typewriter, and the rest, including the menu,
> is in Helvetica.
> http://home.kpnplanet.nl/~shiems@kpnplanet.nl/sylpheed.gif
>
> S.H.
>
>
I used to use Helvetica as the application font, and quite liked it.
What caused me to change was that it kept popping up in web pages at
inappropriate sizes, looking --- as Rick puts it --- seriously ugly. I
never found a way to alias Helvetica to a Truetype font in the browser
content while preserving it in the browser chrome and elsewhere.
--
Liam
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