Re: FN-FORUM: CSS / MAC / PC / Arial font issue??

date posted 18th January 2005 13:50

At 13:38 on Tuesday, 18 Jan 2005, Adam Mould wrote:

> Cheers for your response...
>
> Here are the test files including a screen grab illustrating the
> differences
> across browsers (made this yesterday before adding the VERDANA one)
>
> Cheers... But the 10px (ARIAL/HELVETICA) is fairly important... Taking a
> look at BBC.co.uk site it views beautifully here on MAC SAFARI / OPERA
> (IE5
> bit ropy) but lots of weeny arial usage smaller than 10px... However if I
> view the page(s) on PC IE6 it all takes on a rather ugly look n feel with
> the fonts really not looking too hot.. Tried this in a internet café the
> other day too...
>
> Do you recon this is a platform/browser technology issue or a Font
> installation issue?
>
> Have both platforms here to do testing....



this might help:

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels

physical size of pixel sized font's can change with screen resolution -
dpi might also have an effect

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/ has 263(and some)
screenshots for you to peruse....

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html