Oooh thanks Tom. Bob S
> On Sep 2, 2022, at 09:40 , Tom Glod via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
