Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- Subject: Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 16:23:53 -0500
On 13 May 2013, at 1:37 PM, Appa Rao Mulpuri <email@hidden> wrote:
> Look and feel wise its equivalent to "Lucida Grande". And also both the fonts is taking the equal size for the same text.
If it's that "equivalent," then there's no value to you in hacking AppKit to defeat its font handling.
If it's only approximately equivalent, people will react even if they can't put their finger on what's wrong, by analogy to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley>
I venture that you're under pressure from a marketing manager who thinks a uniform cross-platform appearance is just the sizzle* your app needs. It doesn't work that way. Your marketing manager knows your product on both platforms. That's his context — and almost nobody else's. The context your customers have is what's already on their computers. In that context, Trebuchet is unprofessional.
* (Fact: Every software company I worked for in my early years went bankrupt within six months of management's taking "sizzle" seriously. It starts an enzymatic cascade to corporate apoptosis.)
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