Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- Subject: Re: Displaying "Trebuchet MS" font
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:42:05 -0400
On May 13, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
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> On May 13, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Look and feel wise its equivalent to "Lucida Grande". And also both the fonts is taking the equal size for the same text.
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>> If it's that "equivalent," then there's no value to you in hacking AppKit to defeat its font handling.
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> Exactly. If you can’t tell the difference, why go to the trouble of doing it?
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> 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.)
Well, I'm sure he was considering using something reasonable - like Comic Sans.
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