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Posted on 10-19-09 04:11:41 AM

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	Originally posted by Bloodstar Chicago and Charcoal remind me of my elementary/middle school Macs. Good times. Same here. I don't recall ever having specific assignments in computer lab; we spent most of our time goofing around with Kid Pix and trying to change settings in the Control Panel without the teacher noticing. I used to hate Verdana for some reason, and always made a point of using Arial in my website and forum posts instead. That suddenly changed several years ago, not sure why... ____________________

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Posted on 10-19-09 04:13:46 AM

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I don't have as good memories of the school Macs in general

I remember thinking it was annoying having to do stuff "the Mac way" like dragging to the menu item when I was used to Windows. I do have some good memories though

Like playing Mario Teaches Typing and that Number Munchers or whatever. And when the computer lab technician or whoever realized that I could program at age 8 and taught me some more BASIC programming

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Posted on 10-19-09 04:14:07 AM

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Nobody's ever done a foxgirl, to my knowledge. And Disgaea's awesome, so... yeah.

It's probably because Acmlm's used the Arial font way until the board2 incarnation... I remember it bothering me for a while then just being thrown off by Verdana. Now I'd feel awkward seeing it in Arial.

I remember seeing the first iMacs (

). I thought that was the most amazing design ever.

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Posted on 10-19-09 04:17:34 AM (last edited by Dark Witch Terra at 10-19-09 01:17 AM)

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That computer person would also show me a program called HyperStudio, which was basically a HyperCard ripoff

I don't think we ever found a Windows version for me to use at home

Apparently, HyperCard-type stuff was only in the Apple world, pretty much.

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Posted on 10-19-09 05:17:22 AM

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For my layout, I use Candara. I like it a lot and have been using it since my Sakaki layout when i was looking for a slightly manga-esque font. The only part that's iffy about it is how the numbers are dropped low. 1234567890. See? Oh well, it's not a big deal.

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Posted on 10-19-09 06:48:47 AM

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Originally posted by Dead Master
For my layout, I use Candara. I like it a lot and have been using it since my Sakaki layout when i was looking for a slightly manga-esque font. The only part that's iffy about it is how the numbers are dropped low. 1234567890. See? Oh well, it's not a big deal.

No, I don't see, because I (like most others, I'd imagine) don't have that font.

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Posted on 10-19-09 06:50:52 AM

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i think comic sans ms is a pretty cool font, eh looks professional and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Posted on 10-19-09 06:53:58 AM

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	Originally posted by Xkeeper No, I don't see, because I (like most others, I'd imagine) don't have that font. Hmm...I have it, but I don't know where it came from. It's ©2005 Microsoft, so maybe it came packaged with some update...? ____________________

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Posted on 10-19-09 11:28:07 AM

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It's included in Windows Vista and Office 2007 at least, and possibly Office 2007 viewers as well ... I have it here, at least

(Candara preview)

Originally posted by Dark Witch Terra
I never liked the font Chicago The shape of the V and W bug me for some reason. They look kinda like IJ and IJJ.

MacOS 9's version of Chicago changed that, but I liked the old Chicago (and Geneva) more

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Posted on 10-19-09 11:39:26 AM

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I use XP and have smoothing turned off because I like to see the pixels.

I used to use PM Dialog for my layout, but I realized nobody here had it anyway and the letters were rather large, so I just switched to Arial.

I

Arial

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Posted on 10-19-09 01:20:10 PM

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Candara and the other new fonts are pretty cool. I use Consolas for all my monospace text editing and Calibri for other things, and Cambria if I need a serif font. They're a great improvement over the old fonts IMO - the old ones are still good, but having something new and fresh is still nice.

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Posted on 10-19-09 03:54:12 PM

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I like Calibri a lot, use it for pretty much everything. As for ClearType, apparently it's Vista/7 default, so yes.

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Posted on 10-19-09 04:13:36 PM (last edited by paulguy at 10-19-09 01:13 PM)

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Paulguy's Post configuration

I'm in linux and I use "slight" hinting according to the Xfce appearance panel. It makes fonts a bit bolder and I tend to have fonts a little larger, because I can't see very well.

Subpixel antialiasing doesn't look quite right on this monitor usually because of the large pixel size and this issue with my video card where in linux it'll output YCrCb 4:2:2 through the HDMI connection, with no way to change it. :/

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Posted on 10-19-09 04:14:57 PM

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ClearType?

Answer would be no, I guess.

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Posted on 10-19-09 06:49:49 PM

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	Has anyone figured out a safe way to embed fonts in webpages yet? I seem to recall IE supporting it a while back, but of course it turned out to be a security risk. It's stupid that we still have to limit ourselves to fonts we know everyone is going to have (or similarly-styled ones)... ____________________

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Posted on 10-19-09 07:04:01 PM

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Originally posted by Acmlm
It's included in Windows Vista and Office 2007 at least, and possibly Office 2007 viewers as well ... I have it here, at least
(Candara preview)

Reminds me of a different font I picked up on from Graal. (Tempus Sans ITC)

The numbers thing is also like that in Georgia (0123456789) and I have no idea. It just looks funny.

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Posted on 10-19-09 07:12:05 PM

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So... I never knew about this cleartype thing before.

So I just tested it out with Tuner and I like it. Small difference but nice. Weird that I missed it all these years, I used to love tinkering with options and such. :/

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Posted on 10-19-09 07:14:07 PM

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	Originally posted by Xkeeper (Tempus Sans ITC) And that's one I don't have! :specialed: ____________________

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Posted on 10-19-09 07:15:10 PM

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Originally posted by Gunstar Green
Originally posted by Xkeeper
(Tempus Sans ITC)
And that's one I don't have! :specialed:

C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>dir te*

 Volume in drive C is Junk

 Volume Serial Number is 4DC7-FD60



 Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Fonts



04/17/2002  07:55            76,100 TempsITC.TTF

               1 File(s)         76,100 bytes

               0 Dir(s)   1,129,627,648 bytes free



C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>copy tempsitc.ttf Z:\

        1 file(s) copied.



C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>

And now you do!

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