Re: (OT) fonts (was Station Platform Name Boards [NSW])

["Jonathan Boles" <mousewithglasses@mail.com>]

Couldn't agree more!

Ben <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in article <391EAA87.D7414399@yahoo.com>...
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> Rob Kearey wrote:
> > 
> > Jonathan Boles wrote:
> > 
> > > Tahoma and Verdana are my favourites! I put font sub lists like
> > > "Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" on my pages.
> > 
> > Time to read the following, then.
> > 
> > "FONTFACE considered harmful":
> > 
> > http://babel.alis.com:8080/web_ml/html/fontface.en.html
> > 
> > Rob K
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> What has that page got to do with having favourite fonts? It is all
> about representing other languages with different alpahabets and
> symbols. Using a font like Verdana does no harm. The text appears as the
> same string of letters, it just looks a bit different, which is the
> point of using varying fonts.
> 
> Ben Munro
>