Bob, if you really wanna think about the user, check out resource such as this:
https://www.vandelaydesign.com/google-font-pairings/ On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 11:10 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, ever since my Master's thesis with LiveCode/RunRev, I > have always set up buttons with fonts the way I want them on whatever > platform, imported snapshots of those buttons, and used those images as > buttons. > > No stress, No mess! > > On Fri, 2 Sept 2022, 18:00 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > I read a blog some years back why it is so difficult to get nything on > > Windows to look like it does on the Mac. It is true that Windows renders > > fonts differently that Mac, so "exactly the same" remains the realm of > the > > imagined. But you can get close. My big issue was that using Arial, > labels > > that were right aligned and auto fitted on the Mac would overflow the > left > > f the label on Windows. > > > > Now I am using Aclonica for form headers, Acme for labels and Actor for > > fields, buttons and grids. (Didn't have to look far did I?) I'm pretty > > happy now with the rendering of each on both platforms. > > > > Bob S > > > > > > On Sep 1, 2022, at 23:18 , Neville Smythe via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> > > wrote: > > > > Standardising fonts, so that one would no longer have to check that every > > label and field carefully crafted on the Mac to fit text precisely would > > not have missing pixels or whole words wrapped out of sight on Windows > > because of different font metrics, sounds like a great idea. But the > > reality of the way systems render fonts seems to complicate things: > > > > I set up a test standalone with the Google fonts NotoSans-regular.ttf and > > NotoSerif-regular.ttf installed. A label and and single line text field > > were set up to be exactly the right size to fit some text using Arial > font > > on a Mac (Monterey). Then the labels and field were set to use NotoSans > or > > NotoSerif fonts. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
