Thanks everyone for the input! :-)
on 10/13/05 8:38 PM, Peter Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Indeed a Windows install doesn't have Arial Narrow out of the box.
> Most of the common MS apps (home and business types) provide it though.
> See: http://tinyurl.com/ddws8
Curious, whats with t
> From: Felix Miata
>
> Arial Narrow seems to be significantly less common than
> ordinary Arial:
> http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml
That's a handy resource Felix, thanks :-)
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Peter Williams
> From: Scott Haneda
>
> So, I guess we can not rely on Arial Narrow being there,
> unless some other
> app has installed it. I suspect Word/Office does, but I do
> not have that
> installed, and can not assume everyone does.
Scott,
Indeed a Windows install doesn't have Arial Narrow out of the
On 10/13/05 8:58 PM, "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just made a quick test case in a local file and used the
> following to see how it looks.
>
> CSS
> .arialnarrow {font-family: "Arial Narrow";}
> .arial{font-family: arial;}
> .sansserif{font-family: sans-serif;}
>
on 10/13/05 5:58 PM, Peter Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That seems odd, I wonder if you have somehow written the
> declaration wrong and gotten the system default sans-serif
> in place of the intended Arial Narrow?
>
> I just made a quick test case in a local file and used the
> followi
Peter Williams wrote:
> > From: Scott Haneda
> > Cept for me, on Windows, Arial Narrow is less narrow than
> > normal Arial, OS X pseudo narrows it, but windows is actually
> > less condensed.
> That seems odd, I wonder if you have somehow written the
> declaration wrong and gotten the system
> From: Scott Haneda
>
> Cept for me, on Windows, Arial Narrow is less narrow than
> normal Arial, OS X pseudo narrows it, but windows is actually
> less condensed.
Scott,
That seems odd, I wonder if you have somehow written the
declaration wrong and gotten the system default sans-serif
in plac
on 10/12/05 9:41 PM, Jan Brasna at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The MS typography pages suggest that Arial Narrow is likely to
>> be available on Mac OS too, but I have no recent experience of
>> Mac type choices.
>
> Arial Narrow as well as Impact is OK on default OSX 10.4.2 setup.
Cept for me,
The MS typography pages suggest that Arial Narrow is likely to
be available on Mac OS too, but I have no recent experience of
Mac type choices.
Arial Narrow as well as Impact is OK on default OSX 10.4.2 setup.
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Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com
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> From: Scott Haneda
>
> Is there any safe condensed font I can use on the web?
Scott,
Arial Narrow would be a fairly safe choice for Windows visitors,
a lot of commonly installed MS home and business applications
provide it.
Nimbus Sans or Helvetica Narrow seems like a likely UNIX choice.
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From: "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:39 PM
Subject: [css-d] Condensed font
Is there any safe condensed font I can use on the web? I can not use
the font-stretch as it does not w
Is there any safe condensed font I can use on the web? I can not use
the font-stretch as it does not work in Safari, as far as I can tell, but
something just a bit more of condensed would solve some issues for me.
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