mini-7 is a font. you can find it at myfonts.com. uni 05_53
is also a font but it's not at myfonts.com. (i kind of like suprexy ce; any
comments on this font?) saffron is a font rendering engine, not a
font.
what i'm wondering is, is there a standard for font size in
interfaces? mini-7
Pixel fonts are better because there is no uncertainty about how the font will be rendered. Some human being looked at each letter and decided what pixels should be on and off for a specific size. This is critical for fonts in user interfaces where the algortithms for converting from font
suprexy is pretty cool.
Don't know about standards. I'd
say 11 and up, mainly because you're ensured your formatting is the same on all
platforms. I remember _sans device font not showing bold on Mac's, but
showing on PC's at 10pt size; 11 and up ensures that smaller fonts still show
One of the key things to defining an apps look and feel is fonts. But I find that truetype fonts just dont come out looking as good as flex's built in bitmap font. But I really dont want to look like every other application. In flash I know there are companies that sell great fonts, but I am
I have experimented extensively with fonts in flash 8 and in flex and while they look better than flash 7, there is nothing like pixel fonts for interface. Of course also probably a lot is dependent on the specific true type font. I would imagine that some work better than others, but I am not
You may want to take a look at FlashType fonts. These can be used in Flex 2
and display much better than normal fonts. The Flex 2 documentation has a
chapter on how to use FlashType.
Dirk.
Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com im Auftrag von hank williams
I believe you are correct; advanced anti-alias only
works on embedded fonts.
If you don't embed the fonts, however, there is no
guarentee the user has them, thus they can't be seen unless you embed
them.
If you are looking for small fonts, yeah man, I'd
stick with bitmap fonts, like
Dirk, why do you need to use Flash 8 to do this? Why can't you just embed
Verdana, and set it to use advanced anti-aliasing via CSS?
- Original Message -
From: Dirk Eismann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders]
You can use flash 9 or flash 8, but you must create a swf that has the font from which you embed the font. Who knows why adobe requires the user of flash to do this but thems are the rules. When you do this you get the benefit of flashType as opposed to regular truetype rendering. I would
Thanks Dirk,Unfortunately I am already using flashType. And it is better than just plain old direct truetype, but it still, I dont think, looks great for fonts used in the UI. But perhaps some fonts would look really good and I am just using fonts that dont work as well with flashtype. I am
Sorry Jesse, but I didnt quite understand what you were saying.is mini-7 a font? Where can I find it? Same for uni 05_53?And I assume saffron is a truetype font and you are saying even though it is a truetype font that it works really well in small type. Is that right?
Hank.On 7/18/06, JesterXL
I think mini-7 is bitmap, you can find on Google or
link below. uni 05_53 is a ttf, though, so ingore him. He'sa
cool looking pixel font.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/minifonts/mini7/
Saffron is the font rendering engine Flash Player
8+uses. I don't know when the hell they started
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