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I like the color changes, but I also dislike the typographic changes. Verdana seems more readable than Georgia. A Calibri / helvetica / arial font stack looks b
by mtarnovan 17y ago
I like the color changes, but I also dislike the typographic changes. Verdana seems more readable than Georgia. A Calibri / helvetica / arial font stack looks better to me, like so: http://gist.github.com/349177 http://gist.github.com/349177 (although you might prefer slightly bigger fonts, depending on your screen's DPI)
- vladocar 17y agoCalibri is very good font, I didn't use it because is Windows Vista only, also Cambria like serif font can work very well on screen.
- mtarnovan 17y agoI didn't use it because is Windows Vista only That's why there's a helvetica/arial fallback in the font stack.
- briansmith 17y agoOn MacOS X, there's got to be something better than Helvetica/Arial to fall back on. And, I'm sure that Adobe CS users have some very nice fonts too. I would love to know what the Apple and Adobe counterparts to the MS ClearType Fonts (C* fonts) are.
- invisible 17y agoIf I interpreted what you said right, I prefer Lucida Grande for OSX with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows as the fallback. It's really a great font for the web.
- vladocar 17y agoI't all depends of what OS have HN users. If for example 80% use XP then they all will see Arial, Mac users will see Helvetica. I don't think that Arial/Helvetica works well for HN.
- mtarnovan 17y agoNot necessarily. If they installed a newer Office or Microsoft Word Viewer or other stuff, they will have the C* fonts also. later edit: Found this survey, Calibri has a 57% penetration on Windows http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedRes...
- mannkind 17y agoWow, I love it! I hope you don't mind, but I made a GreaseMonkey script out of your gist: http://gist.github.com/349227 http://gist.github.com/349227
- mtarnovan 17y agoGo right ahead.