Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 08:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote: To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent big money on high quality but uncom

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/06/22 12:58 (GMT+1000) James Ellis composed: To put what you wrote another way, with a font family list such as your example, the visitor is at the designer's mercy to see only the designer's choice of fonts, instead of the visitor's, even if the visitor has spent b

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/06/22 12:58 (GMT+1000) James Ellis composed: > Fonts : Nothing to stop anyone from specifying a font list and the generic > family at the end of the list. That way you can aim for the font you like > best, then the font which most people have (they may be the same) and then > less commo

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread James Ellis
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:27 pm Mark Harris wrote: > Henry Mencia wrote: > > So you just have serif or sans serif in the font-family? > > Pretty much, unless a client specifies otherwise (and I'll try to talk > them around). > > The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I start

Re: [WSG] more on fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
Don't see how it could be any clearer Paul ... :) On 23/06/09 8:39 AM, "Paul Novitski" wrote: > At 6/22/2009 05:00 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote: >> hi. >> well, the subject that i was taking, and the web page for pinciples of >> visual design, my professor, said i have to had fonts, in the style sh

Re: [WSG] more on fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 05:00 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. well, the subject that i was taking, and the web page for pinciples of visual design, my professor, said i have to had fonts, in the style sheet. that was the requirmenet of this site i was doing for a fruit shop. Just as a reality check, let me

[WSG] more on fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Marvin Hunkin
hi. well, the subject that i was taking, and the web page for pinciples of visual design, my professor, said i have to had fonts, in the style sheet. that was the requirmenet of this site i was doing for a fruit shop. cheers Marvin. E-Mail: startrekc...@gmail.com Msn: startrekc...@msn.com Skype:

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-06-22 Thread phil . houghton
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Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 12:24 AM, matt andrews wrote: 2009/6/22 Mark Harris > The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started, is the perceived need to make the web like the printed page. That, and the desire to make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers. > > Let the control go t

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread Mark Harris
matt andrews wrote: 2009/6/22 Mark Harris The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started, is the perceived need to make the web like the printed page. That, and the desire to make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers. Let the control go to the user, focus on getting

Re: [WSG] website fonts

2009-06-22 Thread matt andrews
2009/6/22 Mark Harris > The biggest cost I have seen in web design since 1996, when I started, is the > perceived need to make the web like the printed page. That, and the desire to > make it pixel-identical in multiple browsers. > > Let the control go to the user, focus on getting information o