Lesley, On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Lesley Binks wrote:
> Not sure about the relationship/history between Nimbus sans L and > Helvetica nor can I determine how good a substitute it is. Nimbus Sans L is a clone of Helvetica and has nearly the same metrics. I use it in my basic font-stack [1] actually. The 'normal' line-height is slightly larger than e.g. Arial (1.242 for Nimbus, 1.150 for Arial), the aspect ratio for the 3 fonts is nearly equivalent (0.523~0.524). The one problem the version of Helvetica that ships with OS X has is a very tight 'normal' (that is intrinsic) line-height: 1.005. But if you specify the line-height in your stylesheet, that doesn't affect you. [1] font: 1em/1.4 'Helvetica Neue', 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, sans-serif; 'Helvetica Neue' is a better screen font than 'Helvetica, and matches much closer the intrinsic line-height of Arial. Plus it has multiple weights (100, 300, 400, 700 or UltraLight, Light, Normal/regular and bold) which is a nice thing to use, sometimes Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
