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What is the difference between TrueType fonts and Type-1 fonts?
Started by Finch on
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GoodBoth are scalable (....
Try using one as an UI font in Vista.
This way Adobe relegated other font foundries to non-hinted fonts using Type 3 format, Microsoft is fading out support for Postscript fonts.
Was a trade secret.
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I need to display a file that comes from a mac on a Windows machine.
The font name in the mac file is "Helvetica".
Windows does not have Helvetica but it has "Arial" which is the close. However, if I pass "Helvetica" to a WPF control the font family is...
Started by tom7 on
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You'll have to come up with your own way of choosing which font you want to use, as it won't display the font on....
Talk to any obsessed graphic just plain different.
They are actually different fonts, though the difference is subtle.
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What are mobile web safe fonts?
How to make cross browser, cross platform css font stack?
Started by jitendra on
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A safe bet is to use a generic font family that can://www.ampsoft.net/....
The best solution is to always supply a generic font family after any specific fonts:
font-family which fonts are available on a normal computer.
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Which web-safe fonts are more readable to eyes as a body text? Which web-safe fonts should not be used?
What should be the minimum font size of <p>body text</p> for better readability?
What font size should we use for <H1/2/3/4/5/6> ...
Started by jitendra on
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I don't believe there's a silver bullet for ....
You should.
However the font-family alone won't bring major improvements.
I've found Verdana to be very easy on the eyes for large blocks of text .
IMO: avoid Comic Sans, use font size 10+ pt.
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Hello, do you know some good sites within good fonts that could be used in websites with font-face? There are some sites I know, but I search for fonts that I can use in "commercial projects" and they should be licensed optimally under MIT or (New) BSD...
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Googling for {sil free fontTake a look at Typekit....
Try Font Squirrel , they have ready made @font-face kits that you the biggest range of freely licensed fonts out there, organised with tags.
fonts you like in existing works.
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I would like to install some additional fonts on my Mac.
Is it possible to install some fonts (.ttf - true type fonts - which is installed on Windows) can be installed on my Mac?
Are there any free font collections for Mac OS X?
Started by sagar on
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But (!!), that doesn't mean the font is safe as copying them into /Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/ , you can just open them using font book, or ....
Into the /library/fonts, or /users/username/library/fonts...
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Hi,
I found a list of iPhone supported font here
http://daringfireball.net/misc/2007/07/iphone-osx-fonts
But I just wanted to confirm that, can we use all this fonts in application, or we are restricted to some class of fonts.
thanks in advance.
Started by Amit Vaghela on
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There are calls to enumerate the font families and individual fonts in those families on the phoneYou should be able to use any of those fonts, provided you know the appropriate name, but a complete listing is available in this ....
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I'm a bit confused about the laws applied to web fonts. I know that it's OK to use fonts like Arial, Times Romans, Georgia, etc...I think it's illegal to use other commercial fonts. Are there websites that provide free fonts? If there are.
Can I just ...
Started by janoChen on
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It is legal to use a font that's already installed on the user's the font vendor first....
All fonts come that were produced with the fonts.
Buy the font legally with a license that lets you use them in your project.
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Is there a way to read Open Type Fonts in Java the same way as i do it with TrueType Fonts ?
This works perfectly for TTF but i did not figure out yet how to do the same with Open Type Fonts.
Font f = Font.createFont( Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new FileInputStream...
Started by HaBaLeS on
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Prior ....
Java OpenType font support depends on your OS and JDK version.
I don't think there is Open Type Font support in java (not free atleast), iText claimed to have FontForge which I used to create a ttf from the otf which I then used.
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As super users, using nicer fonts is often an important issue. Now that many sites are using @font-face to embed fonts in the page, having the same fonts installed locally means less downloading, and producing documents with custom fonts often look nicer...
Started by Rich Bradshaw on
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Notably:
Anivers
Fontin Sans
Museo
All these can
Helvetica comes 'free' with....
Linux Libertine and Biolinium
GentiumThe free fonts from the Exljbris foundry.
These are the fonts I've seen most commonly embedded with @font-face.
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