RE: FLASH: Small fonts

[Paul Willoughby]

Bitmap style fonts are good for clarity at small sizes. You can't use

them directly in Flash as the anti-alias screws them up, but transparent

gifs work great and are lightweight. Try these links:


http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap   

http://www.hi-type.de/ 

http://www.steakknife.org/mieps/fonts/indexe.htm   


hth


paul 



> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Remik [remikdkholdings [dot] com (mailto:remikdkholdings [dot] com)]

> Sent: 22 December 2000 08:16

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: Small fonts

> 

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> Slightly OT, but here it goes...

> 

> I'm looking for a tiny little font that would be clear and 

> legible at 5 or 6

> point size, while having anti-aliasing off on it in 

> Photoshop.  Something

> like Verdana 5pt BOLD would work great, BUT, here's the 

> problem - creating

> "buttons" with this font in Photoshop produces text so tiny and so

> claustrophobically compact that you can't even make out the 

> letters at that

> size.  However, if you use CSS and specify 5pt font size, it 

> looks great in

> the browser - other than the font is aliased.  I tried using 

> this method and

> doing screen captures and using that in Photoshop, but I 

> really do not like

> the aliasing of the font at all.


> 


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