Posts tagged ‘fonts’
Standard ≠ Serif in Safari
December 22nd, 2010 at 6:22 pm by Dr. Drang
For font-family properties in CSS, the W3C makes this recommendation: Style sheet designers are encouraged to offer a generic font family as a last alternative. Most web designers follow this advice. It’s common to see things like css: body { font-family: Garamond, serif; } in CSS style files. The idea is that if the visitor’s…
A small request
December 19th, 2010 at 6:18 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been having a discussion on the MathJax mailing list about which fonts get used to render equations. According to the MathJax font help page, the STIX fonts are supposed to be used if you have them on your local computer. I do have the STIX fonts installed on both my iMac and my Macbook…
Elements adds Vera Sans Mono
November 20th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Dr. Drang
A new version of Elements hit the App Store yesterday and it has—for me, anyway—the biggest and best improvement in usability yet: the addition of the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font. How important is this? Many of my most useful files are tables of information arranged in columns. The only way to get columns to…
Fonts and ū—
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:02 pm by Dr. Drang
Since Merlin took the piss out of this pompous writeup earlier today, you’re probably already familiar with Writer, a new text editing app for the iPad. I’ve never had any desire to use these “distraction free” editors, but there’s one part of Writer in which I’m very interested. This tweet from Charles Turner (@vze26m98) gave…
Elements, Simplenote, and iPhone fonts
August 17th, 2010 at 11:18 pm by Dr. Drang
You’ve no doubt heard about Elements by now. It’s the latest iPhone plain text note-taking app. I learned about it this morning from Jesse Grosjean’s tweet. The main features of Elements are: Syncing with your computer(s) via Dropbox. TextExpander support. Character/word/line counts. Choice of font, font size, colors in the display. A “scratchpad” for easy…
An iOS 4 disappointment
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:33 am by Dr. Drang
My biggest disappointment with iOS 4 isn’t the somewhat clumsy double-click required to use fast app switching, it’s the lack of a decent monospaced font. Monospaced fonts are usually thought of as programmers’ fonts, but they’re helpful any time you need vertical alignment of plain text. Many of the files I keep in Simplenote are…
Safari text rendering problem
June 28th, 2010 at 1:15 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been noticing recently that text is sometimes rendering poorly in Safari. At first, I thought it was deteriorating eyesight. Then I thought it was the Retinal display on my iPhone causing me to see pixels on every other screen. but now I’m sure there’s something else going on. The problem seems most common when…
Such a Mensch
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:15 am by Dr. Drang
It seems that Robey Pointer, one of the Twitter guys, has made some changes to Apple’s monospaced Menlo font. He calls the new(ish) font Mensch and has released it for all to use.1 Let’s take a look. Menlo, as you may recall, is Apple’s redesign of Bitstream’s freely available Vera Sans Mono font. Here’s an…
Word up
April 12th, 2010 at 10:24 pm by Dr. Drang
My wife and I are taking over some local volunteer work from another couple, and last week I had to send out some information sheets on the program, a program description and a registration form. The previous volunteers emailed me their versions of the sheets, so it should have been a simple matter of replacing…
