Re: FLASH: To much choice is not enough

[Mary Brzys]

Hi Christian,


Helvetica comes in standard sizes and even narrow, it's used quite a lot in the print industry

because you can kern it so tightly but it's still legible. ( I say that loosely, I've seen it as

small as 3-4 point type, yeah it's legible with a magnify glass!) It's Sans Serif. Ariel is

equivalent to Helvetica on a PC. Can you be more specific on humanistic? Do you mean legible, easy

on the eyes, looks good in any size, with or without serifs? 


Mary Brzys


--- Christian Cook <

christian [dot] cookisluk [dot] com

> wrote:

> The sort of fonts you are looking for are 'humanist' fonts; fonts that work

> well at all sizes. In addition to the microsoft fonts, try Gill Sans, Stone

> Sans, Optima.

> 

> 

> Christian, ISL.

> 

> 

> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:35:19 -0000

>

From: Simon Wheatley <Simon [dot] YM_M4I5S3S_8Marlborough-Stirling [dot] com>

> Subject: RE: FLASH: To much choice is not enough

> 

> The fonts distributed by Microsoft were designed as screen design fonts. Try

> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/, I believe there are Mac

> versions available...

> 

> Simon

> 

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

>

From: Yann Poirier [poiriermediafusion [dot] ca (mailto:poiriermediafusion [dot] ca)]

> Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 2:19 PM

> To: Flash mailing list

> Subject: FLASH: To much choice is not enough

> 

> 

> Hi,

> 

> Boss is asking me (more like arrassing) to find a font that is extremly 

> visible on the web (just to make everybody understand i'm talking of a 

> flash site here ;-).  To help me in my choice I have over a zillons font 

> and the only ways to test it is to try them one by one (no catalog, no 

> font viewer).  So anyone has a good Mac font that they use that could do 

> the trick for me, just to add more info the font is display at a size of 

> 12 and a keerning of 2.

> 

> Please help me, I'm about to lose the little sanity I have left

> 

> 

> Yann

> 

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