Re: FN-FORUM: Mac Font

date posted 21st January 2004 12:44

on 21/1/04 1:09 pm, Paul J White at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> George Hazlewood - Layer1 wrote:
>
>>
>> Just to follow up, I switched my search to Google Groups and pulled up a
>> WindowBlinds skin called AquaXP which is just a winzip file which
>> contained the font! Hurrah! On with the website!
>>
>> http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=2268
>>
> This is interesting too:
>
> http://www.realworldstyle.com/fonts.html
>
> "...you want a sans-serif font. The typical declaration includes
> Verdana, Arial and Helvetica. The first two are not so common on Unix,
> the third was not designed for the screen and becomes all but illegible
> on a Unix monitor. I discovered a nice sans-serif font called Lucida
> that, according to their Unix Font Survey, is present on over 90% of
> Unix machines."
>
> So add that to your style sheets!!
>
> Cheers, Paul.
But first of all you must undertake to never use the font Lucida Handwriting
which should be in the comic sans hall of fame.
Carla