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Posted by Matt Silberstein on 09/29/05 06:41
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:43:27 +0100, in alt.www.webmaster , "Alan J.
Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> in
<Pine.WNT.4.63.0509282131430.1636@ZORIN> wrote:
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>On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Gerry White wrote:
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>> most browsers default to a serif'd font
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>Strange that the vendors should have ganged-up to so affront your
>sense of what is right, isn't it?
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>As it happens, I usually configure my browsers to default to a sans
>font (in fact, one with a good character repertoire, which is rather
>more important to me than cosmetics): but if all those readers choose
>a vendor who chooses a serif font for them - and at the "wrong" size
>too, by your standards - who are we to argue? There might be
>something in it.
I have an unfortunately obsession with fonts. At the very least serif
does make a difference. I use them for very different purposes. And
while there "might" be something to people's choice, and I think
people should have the option, I am not sure most people know which to
use and why.
>> as such I think its a bad idea NOT to spefict a font ...
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>As I hinted before: it seems you don't trust the vendors which your
>readers have chosen. There must be a message in that.
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>But maybe your readers have their own opinions. The more discerning
>ones have already chosen the font and body size that they prefer.
>Maybe you don't care about discerning readers?
Seriously, why would someone decide before looking at the text which
kind of font to you? I can understand liking larger or smaller, I
suppose, but serif fonts have a different affect than sans in
different situations. The look of a headline is different than regular
text.
>If you design your pages right, they'll have no difficulty adapting
>themselves to the vendors' defaults too, if that's what the reader
>accepted.
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>> Drop the font size down by one -
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>Oh please, don't start on *that* again! Next you'll be telling us all
>to specify Verdana.
Specify Veranda. Ok, I had to.
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