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The biggest problem I see is that Baskerville isn't standard on Windows. They may have specified a Baskerville font-family, but that's not necessarily what the
by nhebb 14y ago
The biggest problem I see is that Baskerville isn't standard on Windows. They may have specified a Baskerville font-family, but that's not necessarily what the reader saw. The original test article displayed the asteroid passage as text, not as an image, so unless they accounted for the rendering differences among OS's, the entire test seems questionable.
I'm on a Vista system at the moment, and it does have a Baskerville Old Face variant, but "Gold has an atomic number of 79" does not look like the text shown in the article.
- colanderman 14y agoComputer Modern is not standard on any system either. Presumably they used web fonts.
- nhebb 14y agoYou're probably right about the web fonts, but there is still the issue that the same font will look different on Mac and Windows. Heck, on my system there's a noticeable difference between browsers.
- atworkatwork 14y agoI know Firefox renders web fonts (at least Ubuntu from Google web font api) in an awful manner. Webkit does it perfectly.