MSFT did a new set of fonts to take specific advantage of ClearType: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx
The "Core Fonts" are still available and installed by default on all windows versions that I can find information on, but they were designed for a simpler time when sub-pixel hinting was still rare. I'm not sure that implies that we should do anything in particular WRT Droid, though. Regards On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com> wrote: >> A potential plus is that we could (finally?) count on having at least >> one consistent font between platforms. I'm not sure that's an >> un-adulterated Good Thing (TM), but I can imagine wanting a uniform >> main body font that's not whatever junk Windows or Linux default to. > > These days you can more or less rely on the Microsoft core web fonts > on Windows/Linux. (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, etc. but notably not > Tahoma.) I think our test shell even fails to start if you don't have > them install. Dunno about Macs. I also dunno if that qualifies as > "junk", but they are what the current web uses. > > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
