Re: helvetica font on Windows

On 2010/07/05 14:31 (GMT) Sandra Leske composed:

> I am really frustrated that even on your website you use Helvetica  
> fonts rather than say Arial – a proper web safe font.  Helvetica does  
> not render even remotely well on my PC using firefox or chrome, I run  
> windows XP.  I have Helvetica installed on my computer but it does not  
> render for a lot of people using PC’s, so why is it in use so widely  
> and why do you use it on your website? Why is Arial not used as a  
> proper for screen designed font?

1-Arial is a clone of Helvetica http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

2-On Mac, Helvetica is superior to Arial

3-Why do you keep an inferior font that you don't like installed on your own
computer?
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Received on Wednesday, 7 July 2010 13:38:31 UTC