[PD-dev] small font/display change
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Wed Jun 15 02:35:27 CEST 2005
On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Did you look at a text file in Pd with this patch? I guess I should
>> have been more clear about where it applies. The Times font only
>> applies to viewing text files in Pd, not to anything else. You cannot
>> change the font size of a text file in Pd. So I spec'ed Times 14 over
>> Courier 12. The font is definitely big enough, and can easily be made
>> bigger if need be. I think that Times works well there because it
>> clearly distinguishes the text files from the patches. Try opening up
>> 2.control.examples/00.INTRO.txt for example. Its a minor change.
>
> It's a big change, if you look at "5.reference/0.INTRO.txt" instead,
> because all alignment is wrecked there.
The formatting of other included .txt files is wrecked regardless of
the font (check the About Pd... txt for example, at least on OSX).
> Anyway Times is not really good as a screen font because of its
> Serifs. It's better to use a Sans Serif font on screen (just take a
> look at any webpage: Nobody is using Serif fonts there except for the
> "Print Page" preview.)
I guess its no surprise that this site uses Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/
others:
http://harpers.org/
http://www.newyorker.com/
basically, sites oriented towards reading paragraphs, rather than
application text, headlines, and blurbs.
> If there should be a proportional font in Pd, it should be a kind of
> Sans Serif font like Helvetica or Arial. (Or better yet one of the
> nice looking Bitstream fonts.)
The Times font is already used in Pd. Its one of the three options. I
just thought it would be helpful to differentiate the txt files from
patches in the simplest way possible: using the already included fonts.
The whole serif/sans debate just seems like a fad, some decades serifs
are more readable, other decades sans. That's a debate I want no part
of.
Ultimately, the txt function is Pd is barely used, so if people hate
Times, nobody has to use it. I just put it out there, and I am done
with the issue.
.hc
>
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