Comments on: I Do Not Like Times New Roman. http://apodion.net/apo/i-do-not-like-times-new-roman Z. D. Smith listens to heavy metal, spends too much time on the computer, and fiddles with his font collection. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:16:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Z. D. Smith http://apodion.net/apo/i-do-not-like-times-new-roman/comment-page-1#comment-415 Z. D. Smith Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:46:33 +0000 http://apodion.net/apo/i-do-not-like-times-new-roman#comment-415 <p>I'm a major supporter of text figures as well, but the situation isn't so dire as all that—there's a lot of serif fonts, new and old, with OsF, and in fact in the last 10 years or so they've been on the upswing. They're nowhere near extinct, and very very fun. In fact, Georgia, a font which manages the nearly inconceivable task of being a) well-designed and pleasing to the eye and b) nearly universally available (and thus suitable for .doc files and web design and the like), has them. So, good news!</p> <p>Though really, your default font Arial? That's nearly unpardonable. I don't know if I can cope with that.</p> I’m a major supporter of text figures as well, but the situation isn’t so dire as all that—there’s a lot of serif fonts, new and old, with OsF, and in fact in the last 10 years or so they’ve been on the upswing. They’re nowhere near extinct, and very very fun. In fact, Georgia, a font which manages the nearly inconceivable task of being a) well-designed and pleasing to the eye and b) nearly universally available (and thus suitable for .doc files and web design and the like), has them. So, good news!

Though really, your default font Arial? That’s nearly unpardonable. I don’t know if I can cope with that.

]]> By: cletus http://apodion.net/apo/i-do-not-like-times-new-roman/comment-page-1#comment-403 cletus Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:40:03 +0000 http://apodion.net/apo/i-do-not-like-times-new-roman#comment-403 <p>When I had my PC up & attem, I did most of my work in Venetian. And on e2, my ekw base font is Arial. (My headers are supposed to be Fraktur but ekw has been busted for a long time.)</p> <p>The thing I miss most about font variation is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures" rel="nofollow">text figure numerals</a>. I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be the default for any new fonts.</p> When I had my PC up & attem, I did most of my work in Venetian. And on e2, my ekw base font is Arial. (My headers are supposed to be Fraktur but ekw has been busted for a long time.)

The thing I miss most about font variation is text figure numerals. I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t be the default for any new fonts.

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