- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:49:14 +0000
- To: public-alreq-admin@w3.org
Dear all, I have a thought about font-family types and when to use each type. (Fill an issue?) Font family can be classified by "style or decoration" between two extremes, from raw type (courier/fixed-width… let's call it textual) to calligraphic type, via various other types more or less stylish (the latter ranging from, e.g. Arial to Apple Chancery/Lucida Calligraphy etc). There is for all tastes. (see my sample [1] ....) Precisely, should we "allow" any fonts to apply anywhere, or should there be some typographical rules? Especially in Arabic, where it is very tempting to use nice letters. I think also readability might be better in the other way round, from the more stylish fonts (less readable) to the less stylish (more readable). It can be considered as an accessibility issue in some cases (e.g. video subtitles). For example, to do it pretty, some may use (and abuse of) stylish fonts everywhere. An example here [2] (OK not bad). A typical case also are subtitles or video scripts [3]. Anyway, a typographical rule could be that the stylish fonts are for titles banners etc ... and normal fonts are for, say, the content of paragraphs. Here are some examples (image snapshot): - Title decorative, paragraph normal ( http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/aljazeera.png ) - Title decorative, paragraph decorative (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/arado-deco-font4all.png) - Title normal, paragraph normal (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/asharq-text-font4all.png) Any thoughts? Najib [1] http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/Sample.pdf [1] http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/Sample.html [2] http://www.arado.org.eg/ [3] http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/subtitle1.jpg [3] http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/subtitle2.jpg
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