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Opinion about expansion of the cross platform web font issues:
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Opinion about expansion of the cross platform web font issues:
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7.Jul.2006 7.51am
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7.Jul.2006 7.59am
What was the reason for making the new fonts smaller?
Was it to appear more "posh" -- like book faces, rather than news text faces -- or was it to accomodate the accents in wider encodings? Or are the fonts on a standardized x-height, pegged at the typeface with the smallest x-height? Or something else?
7.Jul.2006 8.05am
>Or something else?
It's not making the fonts smaller, it is lying the points-per-inch higher, which shrinks 'em. This is why they are 8-7 pt. optical masters, not the 10-12 pt. they should be.
CT is the first technology ever released where non-bozo users are recommending the use of the monospaced font as the best of the bunch.