Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > I forgot to ask more questions about this. It's a significant > change, but not one that I have not put considerable thought into. > > What font size to do use for your Pd patches? When you use fonts of > this size in other apps, do you have it set to bold?. I thought > about it and looked around, and I noticed that nobody that I saw uses > bold fonts for text unless it's a header or special case.
I use bold in every text editor and terminal I use, which is, where I use mono fonts. Normally I use Lucida Sans Mono Bold or set Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold. I think, in general it's best to let people choose, however it's not possible to use "-typeface" or "-font" to switch between bold and normal. > Even when reading code. Also, most people don't use 10pt fonts for > normal reading. For example, the default font for web pages is > usually 12pt or 16pt. It's because web people optimize for Windows! Windows still has a default DPI setting of 75 IIRC which is really old school on most modern screens. On my current machine I have a DPI of 90x89, which results in Windows websites having a very small font. With small 12" laptops and high resolutions the DPI settings get even more confusing for web and GUI designers. In the long run, zooming/scaling is the only solution that could make everyone happy. > I think that Pd's text is not really like reading a block of text, > but maybe more like webpage menus. It seems those are mostly not in > bold fonts also, but sometimes are. Menu styling is a fashion thing, which will change every year. On the site I manage (www.dradio.de) our designer made every menu bold, teh NY Times has no bold menu at all. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
