Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
by vetinari on Thursday August 12, 2010 @04:33PM
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Or worse - you get Helvetica bundled with HP print drivers, that is unsuitable for any kind of screen reading.
Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
by powrtoch on Thursday August 12, 2010 @03:26PM
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Right, this is what I was acknowledging. The question was whether Helvetica Neue might render better than ordinary Helvetica.
Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
by faramarz on Thursday August 12, 2010 @03:36PM
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I would think so. But you'd have to import the font remotely and not depend on the local hierarchy for everyone to take advantage of that. Otherwise we're back to square one with the windows users left out.
Typekit is the solution to that if you're willing to pay. I doubt open libraries will ever carry Helvetica. It costs too much. :P
Otherwise it becomes unbearable to read at standard body font size 11-13pt. See here http://trevordavis.net/play/helvetica/
Unfortunately for windows users, they don't get the pre-loaded collection and because the font isn't free, most people settle for downloading either one version/style as demo-copy or modified version of it. This is problematic because the CSS still recognizes that you have Helvetica and doesn't fall back to Arial.