Neville, That sounds like an incredibly useful exercise. I wonder... could you be persuaded to make that a blog post about fonts across platforms I could put on our website? If yes, contact me offlist :)
Best Regards, Heather Heather Laine Customer Services Manager LiveCode Ltd www.livecode.com > On 6 Sep 2022, at 02:27, Neville Smythe via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I agree Quentin, trying to make text appear exactly the same on all platforms > is a fools errand. > > That however is not the main point of the exercise, at least for me. When > designing an apps interface, it would be good to know that (at least static) > text items will (probably) appear in the same font style and height and the > text is all visible: no pixels obscured at top or bottom or left or right, no > unintended word-wrapping, and not too close to other objects such as a field > border. > > Including one’s own fonts such as Google fonts, which are probably not in the > user’s default system setup — on a desktop at least, and setting the baseline > as in a previous post, would seem to be a useful addition to the production > process (and may even achieve precise equality between Monterey and Windows > 10 if my early experiments hold true! ). > > But the most important parameter is of course the text length. The usual > mantra is to add about 10% extra padding to the field length. I intend to set > up a database for a range of fonts and platforms to check just what extra > length is really needed (is that figure of 15% for Linux I quoted actually > correct, it sounds unbelievable). I have access to Mac Monterey, Mac High > Sierra, and Windows 10 and Ubuntu via Parallels. Once done I will publish > the database. Hopefully someone could then add data for Window 11 for example > ( and iOS and Android) > > Finally a couple of other comments about fonts on Monterey. I mentioned Times > on the Mac being weirdly small. Turns out Times is no longer included in > Monterey although it will recognise a scripted setting to Times ; if you set > text to 13pt Times it seems the system substitutes Times New Roman 11pt > (which looks like 9pt in any other font). > > And if you set the text to the (Default) font then changes to the textSize of > the field have no visible affect, what you get is the default system font at > its default size (SF Pro 12pt) > > > Neville > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
