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

[Ben <sporologist@yahoo.com>]

Well good luck to them in reading any page!

Mitch wrote:
> 
> Aaahhh but what if Wingdings is their default font (oh dear!)
> 
> "Ben" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> 39227985.11BED330@yahoo.com">news:39227985.11BED330@yahoo.com...
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> |
> | Rob Kearey wrote:
> | >
> | > Ben wrote:
> | >
> | > > > http://babel.alis.com:8080/web_ml/html/fontface.en.html
> | >
> | > > 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.
> | >
> | > Read it again, Ben!
> | >
> | > Consider the possibilites of not having the target font on the client
> | > machine.
> |
> | It would just appear in the client machines default font. Where's the
> | harm in that?