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There was a time when Helvetica crapped out spectacularly in Windows with a certain combination of user-installed fonts. Can't remember exactly which combinatio
by kijin 4y ago
There was a time when Helvetica crapped out spectacularly in Windows with a certain combination of user-installed fonts. Can't remember exactly which combination it was or perhaps still is, but anyway that was a pretty solid reason for prioritizing Windows default fonts over Helvetica. Maybe someone pointed that out to the author who changed the content but didn't really test it on their own site.
- montag 4y agoBack in my day, if you had Helvetica installed on Windows, it wasn’t made for screen rendering and looked terrible. I remember putting Windows-friendly fonts higher in the stack for that reason
- cpeterso 4y agoIIRC, most Helvetica fonts on Windows computers were installed by Adobe applications, which might explain why the fonts were designed for print instead of screen rendering.