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Author: Marge
Date: 2002-02-09 21:30
Thanks, Mark, for going to a larger font size for BB messages! The change suddenly appeared after I finished a posting--what a great surprise. No more squinting at teeny-tiny type.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-02-09 21:34
I think only Mac users will notice ;^)
I did switch to Verdana vs. Arial as a primary type font.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-02-10 13:23
Macs & PCs render fonts differently depending on the mode specified - the fonts were specified in point sizes which are very small on the Mac. I changed the sizing to absolute pixels.
Also, most Macs don't have Arial as a sans-serif font/font family - they use Helvetica which prints well but is thin on a monitor. I switched to Verdana and the primary font because most Macs and PCs now have the Verdana and Tahoma fonts for on-screen renderings. The Tahoma/Verdana families are especially engineered and hinted for monitor viewing rather than printing (although they print nice, too).
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-02-10 16:43
If you use "Opera" as a browser all you need do is set your "size" (right hand upper dialogue box) to 120% that will fill your screen. 150% slops over on the right side.
Bob A
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2002-02-11 05:20
Mark --
Thanks also from a PC user. I noticed a change when I logged on tonight (first time this weekend). I wouldn't say the type is larger on my monitor, but it's somehow clearer and cleaner.
You say Tahoma and Verdana were "especially engineered and hinted [???] for monitor viewing". Does that mean the typefaces were designed primarily for monitor viewing or were they just the faces chosen by someone (software designers? monitor manufacturers? Apple?) as the ones to be tweaked for that use?
I also like Verdana in print. It's a nice change from Helvetica or Arial.
Todd W
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-02-11 13:10
My understanding is that both Tahoma and Verdana were designed and tweaked for 72 dpi resolution both with and without anti-aliasing, which matches most monitor's true resolution.
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Author: Marge
Date: 2002-02-11 15:41
Arial is also installed on our iMac, but that's what showed as incredibly tiny and hard to read. We have Verdana installed and so enjoy the great improvement. We do not have Tahoma, and I don't know whether that's a commonly used font on Macs or not.
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