- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:15:42 -0800
- To: www-font@w3.org
At 12:09p -0800 02/25/98, Bill Hill wrote: >For Verdana (and also Georgia, the serif family), Matthew started by >developing a set of bitmaps at the most important screen sizes. These were >then used to draw the outlines, which were then hinted so they generated >those exact bitmaps, but were also scalable. >Now, when it comes to designing characters for the screen, especially for >the small sizes typically used for block text, there are a very limited >number of pixels with which to play What about the factor of "nominal" screen resolution? A 13" monitor at a resolution of 640x480 has about 72 pixels per inch -- this is the nominal "dpi" (ppi?) for MacOS. For some reason, Microsoft puts PCs at 96dpi (why I don't know -- Pythagorean law should hold true for any platform), with the result that Arial 9 for Windows has the same number of pixels as Arial 12 for MacOS. I've seen Arial 9 on many MS/Windows web pages, which becomes quite illegible (~6.75pt) on the Mac. What is the solution?
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