Interesting Font



  • @aythun said:

    ClearType'd fonts always seem way too light to me.
    Try using the ClearType Tuner Power Toy. Without this, ClearType is unusable on certain LCDs.



  • @aythun said:

    fish

    ClearType'd fonts always seem way too light to me.

     

    It really doesn't look very good, though not very bad either.

    For the challenged: this screenshot is not Cleartype.



  • @Cap'n Steve said:

    @asuffield said:

    @TDC said:

    @GalacticCowboy said:

    Nah, Apple are more of a WT*bzzt*smoke*twitch*

    In what universe is it acceptable to replace an unknown font with the nearest alphabetical match?  Shouldn't they default to something safe, like a system font?

     

    What if an application wants to use "Verdana Second Edition Super Bold" but you only have "Verdana Second Edition Medium Bold"? Should it revert to Times New Roman then?

    I don't agree with their solution, but I guess that's what they thought.

    This is why classical X fonts use a fontspec, which looks like:  -misc-fixed-*-*-normal--20-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

    It is quite clear which fonts are acceptable and which ones are not. The Windows solution of "guess what sounds similar" doesn't work all that well because the guessing algorithm can't tell which fonts are from the same family and hence are suitable replacements. While the X system has many flaws, it at least does better on this one.

    If you go to the Windows\Fonts directory, you can sort them by similarity. I'm not sure what exactly it's sorting by, but it's not alphabetical order.

    Correct.  If it is a known font, the font itself tells Windows what family it is in, etc., so Windows can make an educated guess.  The problem occurs when the referenced font is completely unknown to that system, so it can't even determine what a "similar" font might be.


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