RE[2]: On-line Help: Arial v. Times New Roman

["Ridder, Fred" <F -dot- Ridder -at- DIALOGIC -dot- COM>]

Another sans-serif font to consider for on-line use is Microsoft's
Verdana. Supposedly, the font was designed for readability in
small sizes on-screen, and I've had very good results using it
that way. If you look at Arial, MS Sans Serif, and Verdana side
by side, you'll notice that the shapes of Arial characters are
quite narrow while MS Sans are noticeably wider (more square)
and Verdana the widest.  This seems to help preserve the
distinctive shapes of the letters when you are using very few
pixels to display them.

Fred Ridder  (mailto:f -dot- ridder -at- dialogic -dot- com)
Senior Technical Writer
Dialogic Corporation, Parsippany, NJ

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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Chuck Martin [SMTP:cmartin -at- SEEKERSOFT -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Friday, September 19, 1997 3:18 PM
>Subject:       Re: On-line Help: Arial v. Times New Roman
>
>Serifs get really roughed up on a computer screen. The 96 or 120 dpi just
>isn't enough to render them well, especially at small font sizes.
>
>If you're writing Windows Help, you should use neither. Instead, choose MS
>Sans Serif as your text font. You won't find it in your font list, but you
>can type it in. MS Sans Serif (and its counterpart, MS Serif) were designed
>specifically for display on the low resolution of display devices.
>
>

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