Fonts

[dr_mabeuse]

Just wondering whether I'm the only one who hates the font that Lit uses: Arial, I guess it is.

It's not so bad in the boards, but I find it really wearisome in stories. I think my own stuff looks and reads much better in Times New Roman, which is the font I always work in. When I publish stories here and see them in Arial or Verdana or whatever it is, they look flat and kind of forbidding. For some reason I always associate Arial with instruction booklets.

Does anyone else care about fonts?

---dr.M.

 

[whispering_surrender]

You're not the only one at all Dr. M. I also use Times New Roman for the most part when writing. But, over time, I got used to reading arial, as that was what they used at my old employer. *snicker* I managed to convince my new employer that Times New Roman looks much better.....Much easier to work that way, in my humble opinion.

Whisper

 

[Alex De Kok]

Does anyone else care about fonts?

---dr.M.

I care, but possibly not to the extent that you do. So long as the font that is used is clear and easily readable - which Arial is - I don't mind. Like you I prefer Times New Roman, a beautiful typeface, for my own work.

Alex

 

[Quasimodem]

What will our New Demand be:
Adjustable fonts, so be can choose to publish in default (whatever) Arial Times Courier or Century.

 

[MathGirl]

Does anyone else care about fonts?

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Dear Dr M,
I really, truly envy you. Anyone who has nothing to complain about except fonts is in very good condition.
MG
Ps. I agree with you about the font, but that's beside the point.

 

[Guest]

Maths makes a good point. I certainly have more urgent matters to attend to in Life.

Still, Arial is boring.

Perdita

 

[wildsweetone]

The answer my friend...

Is quit reading, and write more!



wso
*thinking, I mentioned this to somebody recently*

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Re: Re: Fonts

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Dear Dr M,
I really, truly envy you. Anyone who has nothing to complain about except fonts is in very good condition.
MG
Ps. I agree with you about the font, but that's beside the point.

Well, you missed my bitch about whether they should put the coins on top of the bills or beneath them when they give you change.

Maybe if I'd put in some bathroom references it would have been more peronally meaningful?

---dr.M.

 

[raphy]

Personally I like Arial/Helv/Tahoma and other sans-serif typefaces, but maybe that's just me.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Personally I like Arial/Helv/Tahoma and other sans-serif typefaces, but maybe that's just me.

Nope, I'm with you on that one. Times looks much too busy. Arial/Helvetica/Tahoma and Verdana are my favourite. Much lighter, slicker. It's a much more contemporary design.

 

[Icingsugar]

Nope, I'm with you on that one. Times looks much too busy. Arial/Helvetica/Tahoma and Verdana are my favourite. Much lighter, slicker. It's a much more contemporary design.

On screen, I'd much rather read a linear typeface. Unless I'm on a superb hi-res screen, perfectly balanced. The antialias needed to display a reading-size (10 to 12 pt) Times or other serif is not nearly good enough to make it pleasant to look at.

Printed on paper however, that is a whole different ballpark. Times, or Bookman are my favourites for longer texts.

Maybe Lit should give that option to the reader, and not the author?

 

[Guest]

Printed on paper however, that is a whole different ballpark. Times, or Bookman are my favourites for longer texts.

Yes, good point, Cake Gent. I prefer ink on paper for reading, and so the traditional fonts.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

dbl post, crap.

 

[Guest]

 

[DirtyJJ]

Does anyone else care about fonts?

---dr.M.

dr. M., this is a topic near and dear to me being a graphic artist. Interestingly enough, a font like Times New Roman is considered to be easy to read because of the "serifs" that draw your eyes through it (the little "thingys" at the end of the letters). But, it was decided that on the web, "sans-serif" fonts like Arial or Verdana are easier to read. So, in general, typeface standards for print and web are completely different.

Personally I don't mind the font Lit uses but it is probably because I am so used to seeing these fonts on the web.

And dr.... regarding your thread about the coins and change - only you could post such a thread and have 25 responses in a day (and I mean that in a good way!!).
DJJ

 

[Icingsugar]

Ariel works pretty well as a screen font...as it does not have the subtle details of Times......HOWEVER....studies have shown that serif fonts like Times are easier to read large bodies of text...because the serifs (the "feet" and "spurs" on the letters) act as optical "bridges" to ease transitions.

rhino- it is what i do.

Aye. There is a reason they print novels in those serif buggers. And that is that reason. I suspect that in the future, when computer screens gains resolution, and also go from omitting light to reflectibng light, like paper, the useage of serifs on digital media will increase.

/Ice - it is not what I do, but I learned that kinda stuff in school.

 

[gauchecritic]

Not enough choice to make a difference to me anyway. I like comic sans or Lucida script or even Franklin gothic but only for a word or two on a flyer or poster.

Otherwise, this is fine (ariel fine? prospero bold?)

Gauche

 

[LadyJane]

I also use Times New Roman when I write, but I don't mind Arial on the screen. But I hate Courier! Apparently, agents/editors will take Times or Courier, but they prefer Courier. I'm a tech writer and in the days before we could do screen captures, we'd re-create screen examples using Courier - ugh that's what it reminds me of.

 

[Guest]

ariel fine? prospero bold?

Ms. Ariel Fine and Mr. Prospero Bold: good character names, Gauche.

Perdita

 

[DirtyJJ]

Ariel works pretty well as a screen font...as it does not have the subtle details of Times......HOWEVER....studies have shown that serif fonts like Times are easier to read large bodies of text...because the serifs (the "feet" and "spurs" on the letters) act as optical "bridges" to ease transitions.

rhino- it is what i do.

rhino - that's pretty much what I said!
Great minds think alike.

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

"Not I" said the little red hen.
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I browse in Lynx, and the font I see is the default font of
my monitor. I see text, not graphics, and different fonts
are a graphics feature.

 

[Icingsugar]

I browse in Lynx, and the font I see is the default font of
my monitor. I see text, not graphics, and different fonts
are a graphics feature.

Interresting. How does old Lynx hold up these days, with the ever decreasing simplicity of web sites? This...



...must look really stupid to you.

 

[Weird Harold]

Just wondering whether I'm the only one who hates the font that Lit uses: Arial, I guess it is.

The font face declaration in a Lit story is "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica."

The same declaration is used for the textboxes in the newreply form on the BB.

So, if you have the Verdana TT font on your system, then that's the font you see, otherwise you see Arial (which is the default font for MS products) or Helvetica TT.

I do have Verdana configured, and it's much better than Arial for reading things online.

I too use Times New Roman as my default where I can set it -- writing, spreadsheets, e-books, etc.

 

[shereads]

Any way to combine the bills-or-coins thread, the toilet paper thread and the fonts thread into an Anna Nicole Smith thread? With some jabs at Rumsfeld?

 

[Guest]

Any way to combine the bills-or-coins thread, the toilet paper thread and the fonts thread into an Anna Nicole Smith thread? With some jabs at Rumsfeld?

Well, maybe if you tie it in with a focus on Saddam's trial.

Perdita