Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- Subject: Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:32:42 -0700
On May 13, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Fritz Anderson <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.
Exactly. If you can’t tell the difference, why go to the trouble of doing it?
Maybe I’m a font geek, but I can easily tell the difference, and Lucida is a better-looking font than Trebuchet (which has some intentional weirdnesses that call attention to itself; not what you want in a system font.)
Also, they’re not going to have the same metrics. Maybe they’re approximately the same in text you’ve tried, but that doesn’t hold for all characters and all text.
Did anyone bring up Unicode issues yet? I’m not sure how broad the Unicode support in Trebuchet is. If someone is using the app in a language Trebuchet doesn’t have characters for, those letters will be substituted from Lucida, which will look ugly.
Ultimately, Appa, we can’t stop you from making an app with an ugly nonstandard UI (although the Mac App Store reviewers might.) But it doesn’t sound like anyone here is interested in helping you do it, so I think you’re on your own. Sorry.
—Jens
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