Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
FWIW, "proportional" or "typographic" would be more conventional terms than "variable pitch." -- JHHL (Feel free to visit me some Saturday at the International Printing Museum. After COVID-19 is no longer an existential threat, but merely a minor nuisance.)

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:40:17 +0100 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:26:16AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: > > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a > > > non-monospaced font. If it's malicious, its user

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:26:16 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a > > non-monospaced font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully > > know... > > OK, the meaning in CSS is more

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:26:16AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced > > font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know... > > OK, the meaning in CSS is more

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread peter
From: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced > font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know... OK, the meaning in CSS is more than the conventional meaning. For varispaced and serifed, "font-family:

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:52:33AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100 > > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best > > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so: > > > > font-family: serif > > Will try

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread peter
From: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100 > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so: > > font-family: serif Will try that, thanks. Really, two attributes are involved: serifing and spacing.

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread peter
From: Darac Marjal Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:26:54 + > ... worth looking at the W3C's recommendations for "Web Safe Fonts". Helpful link. Thanks Darac, ... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479Bcc: peter at easthope. ca VoIP: +1 604 670 0140

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-16 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:50:13PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. If all

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/02/2021 03:50, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. Not a definitive list, but ru

Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-15 Thread peter
What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. Thx, ... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479Bcc: peter at easthope