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zdashamber) wrote2006-01-03 08:25 pm
zdashamber) wrote2006-01-03 08:25 pm
Take off your shoes - you tread on font preferences
So, I finally got the laptop all fired up and loaded with many of the things I need. It's got a wide screen... It's currently in 1280x780 resolution. (Does this mean that all those bitch-ass websites that require high resolutions to display without a horizontal scroll will finally work for me? I check the one where my friendly and trivially simple fix suggestion was coldly rebuffed... Nope! Apparently I also have to devote my whole screen to the website. Suckaaaaa!)
Anyway, the result of a high resolution is apparently teensy tiny text. I'm still deciding whether I can live with it in general, but it's clear that it's not working on the internet. I peer at pages, I hit Ctrl+ several times, it gets to a nearly plausible size, and I realize: It's a fucking serif font. On a laptop screen? Oh Hell No.
Times New Roman, apparently. Hork. Anyway, so Firefox has a plethora of fonts that could be your default, with 12 to choose from at the top of the list, and perhaps 100 below. (Among them, Webdings. Who the hell sets their default font as Webdings?!) The 12 above set me to wondering if this summer the streets were papered with leaflets covered in entirely new fonts and I was cleaning the bathroom or something. Gungsah? Tell me, did I miss the revolution?
I think I'm on "Vrinda" now... Not sure, because I didn't see the difference between it and "Kartika". It's passable, though too thin. I'd like to find something better. I'm not terribly keen on going through a hundred fonts one by one.
Got suggestions for a default browsing font?
Or is there a website somewhere where all the Firefox font options are laid out next to each other so they can be compared? I didn't find one, but it's hard to see... ;) (Seriously, this font issue is like having a layer of clear obsidian laid over the internet. I see things, but they're not clear, and the smells that should be associated with them aren't there, and I scrabble at them but I can't grasp them...)
Or is there some widescreen resolution that doesn't make everything teensy and spidery? None of the resolutions offered in "Display" seem to be appropriate for my screen save 1280x768. Can I just get out a calculator and make my own? Hm. 1084x660?
Anyway, the result of a high resolution is apparently teensy tiny text. I'm still deciding whether I can live with it in general, but it's clear that it's not working on the internet. I peer at pages, I hit Ctrl+ several times, it gets to a nearly plausible size, and I realize: It's a fucking serif font. On a laptop screen? Oh Hell No.
Times New Roman, apparently. Hork. Anyway, so Firefox has a plethora of fonts that could be your default, with 12 to choose from at the top of the list, and perhaps 100 below. (Among them, Webdings. Who the hell sets their default font as Webdings?!) The 12 above set me to wondering if this summer the streets were papered with leaflets covered in entirely new fonts and I was cleaning the bathroom or something. Gungsah? Tell me, did I miss the revolution?
I think I'm on "Vrinda" now... Not sure, because I didn't see the difference between it and "Kartika". It's passable, though too thin. I'd like to find something better. I'm not terribly keen on going through a hundred fonts one by one.
Got suggestions for a default browsing font?
Or is there a website somewhere where all the Firefox font options are laid out next to each other so they can be compared? I didn't find one, but it's hard to see... ;) (Seriously, this font issue is like having a layer of clear obsidian laid over the internet. I see things, but they're not clear, and the smells that should be associated with them aren't there, and I scrabble at them but I can't grasp them...)
Or is there some widescreen resolution that doesn't make everything teensy and spidery? None of the resolutions offered in "Display" seem to be appropriate for my screen save 1280x768. Can I just get out a calculator and make my own? Hm. 1084x660?
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