Re: In search of Helvetica
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.
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