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27 Apr 2009, 12:36 pm

I think that's call Microsoft Sans Serif.

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27 Apr 2009, 12:44 pm

Ah, sorry, I see that now - MS Sans Serif versus Microsoft Sans Serif

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27 Apr 2009, 12:55 pm

Not a problem. I'll blame Microsoft's confusing naming scheme.

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27 Apr 2009, 1:09 pm

Hmm, there doesn't seem to be much information on Microsoft's homepage.

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27 Apr 2009, 5:43 pm

Whilst I generally prefer sans serif fonts as less cluttered and more dyslexia friendly, I would still prefer them to have the hook at the bottom of the lower case l, which very few of them do. The best I have found in XP is Trebuchet MS but I'm not so keen on the sloping capital M. I prefer a parallel M. One thing that I like about Vista (shock horror!) is the Euphemia font, a sans serif font with both a hooked lower case l and a parallel capital M.

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27 Apr 2009, 11:09 pm

Wikipedia claims that Euphemia is targeted towards writing Canadian syllabics...does it have extra American Indian characters?

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28 Apr 2009, 5:40 pm

Vashna wrote:

Wikipedia claims that Euphemia is targeted towards writing Canadian syllabics...does it have extra American Indian characters?

Afraid I wouldn't know about that but I'm sure somebody here will

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28 Apr 2009, 10:27 pm

I am such a nerd :p

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03 May 2009, 12:04 am

Canadian syllabics!?... is there an 'eh' character, like the Euro?... j/k...

ah, the lorem ipsum bit. I recall there's an entire site devoted to why they use that bit 'o Latin...

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03 May 2009, 12:15 am

pakled wrote:

Canadian syllabics!?...

is there an 'eh' character, like the Euro?...

j/k...

ah, the lorem ipsum bit. I recall there's an entire site devoted to why they use that bit 'o Latin...

I'd love to see that page!

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03 May 2009, 1:32 am

pakled wrote:

ah, the lorem ipsum bit. I recall there's an entire site devoted to why they use that bit 'o Latin...

Because this text does not make any sense in Latin either. So if someone sees a text starting with "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ..." he normally knows that this text is just a place holder;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

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04 May 2009, 2:04 pm

I actually found that my old version of CorelDraw has the help file written out in MS Serif. I definitely remember a few older applications that used it as the screen font. Apparently, at one point in the bitmapped font only era, Windows 3.x used the small fonts typeface to stand in for a sans-serif font that was too small for the screen, but would be correctly printed, and likewise the MS Serif font could be used for standing in for a serif font that was too small for the screen, but would print correctly. Of course, they were used for many other things. Interestingly, I saw a website that suggested MS Serif as a web design font because of its 'secret' ubiquity.

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05 May 2009, 2:53 am

Vashna wrote:

This is going to sound stupid, but why is Times Roman such a common publishing font? I mean, besides its obvious use in computer word processing, I've actually seen a great number of books and magazines published in Times. Of course, the majority I see are still some form of a modern Antiqua font, but I was wondering why Times has such popularity. By the way, why do you not see books published in monospace fonts like Courier?

Thanks so much!

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Times is an awful font in my opinion. There are much nicer fonts than it.

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06 May 2009, 12:54 pm

I actually advocate the use of Georgia. Its a modern font who's screen readability is actually pretty consistent, despite being a serifed font, and it is quite sturdy. It is also not as typographically dark as Times Roman is. I am not sure why more outlets do not permit its use. I am actually contemplating changing my browser's default serif font to Georgia.

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06 May 2009, 2:43 pm

Vashna wrote:

I remember in school. They would always ask to use Times Roman and I always wondered why.

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