[Design][Cosmo][Sum]Fonts for Cosmo (Web) UI

[Priscilla Chung]

Opps! I realized I changed the title of the subject line, so it  
wasn't part of the original e-mail thread. Here is the start of the  
thread about Fonts for Cosmo (Web) UI:

http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-August/005220.html

Thanks, -Priscilla

On Aug 30, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> The Issue:
> The design specifies slightly different fonts for each OS: Lucida  
> Grande for Mac, Tahoma for PC and Arial or Helvetica for Linux.  
> Matthew expressed concern on how to maintain different stylesheets  
> for different OS.
>
> The final decision was:
> + One stylesheet only.
> + The team agreed to make use of fallbacks in the font declaration.  
> The font faces will go from least common to most common. This  
> should solve the problem.
> + The final tag would look something like .classname {font: 12pt/ 
> 14pt Lucida Grande, Tahoma, Arial, Sans Serif}
>
> To reiterate some of the comments made from the discussion:
>
> Matthew's main concern were about maintaining different style  
> sheets: If there were more then one universal font, then it would  
> be difficult to keep track of and keep consistent over different  
> browsers and platforms. This also makes it difficult when the  
> designer, developer and the user are not seeing the same thing,  
> specifically spacing, text wrapping etc.
>
> Jeremy gave some background on font rendering issues Mac/Windows  
> and the different fonts he's had to deal with. A solution proposed  
> is to do a font fall back on CSS which is not painful and probably  
> acceptable to please both worlds.
>
> JohnT commented on a book by Zeldman, that you're basically limited  
> to what the user has installed on their computers when the OS is  
> installed. To code your CSS to provide fallback depending on the OS  
> or you have to have OS/Browser specific stylesheets.
>
> There was further discussion about the ordering of font faces in  
> the font declaration. Matthew was concerned about the rendering  
> quality of Tahoma on the Mac. Bobby pointed out that Mac users only  
> have Tahoma if they have MS Office, but it is not a standard font.  
> In any case, Lucida Grande is not available on Windows.
>
> -Priscilla
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