Re: In search of Helvetica

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 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.

Remarkable.... I always see a font like Helvetica displayed in the
nearest existent size.  (Using Mozilla or Opera, if that matters.)
'xlsfonts | grep helv' reveals that these sizes are  8, 10, 11, 12, 14,
17, 18 etc.

It might be a good idea to install the msttcorefonts package, to make
certain web sites look better.  In html, Helvetica is not often coded as
the sans-serif font of first choice.

S.H.