Comments on: Giving Full Typographic Control to the User https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector A running commentary of occasionally interesting things — from Mike Davidson. Thu, 26 May 2016 06:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Chris https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-157 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-157 i’m seeing the same effect using firefox .8 and win2k.

looking very quickly at the css used for the site, i would guess it has something to do with the huge numbers and/or some padding in the comment containing DIVs. that mixed with the overflow:hidden is the likely culprit.

i think it would still look cool if you took out the overflow:hidden property and just let the minimal comments become the height of the big numbers. i’m not sure that is what would happen, but if it did, it would balance out the small comments guests leave.

i hope that makes sense…

]]> By: Mike D. https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-148 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-148 Dan,

Oh man, that is one “interesting” header you have on your site there. :)

You may also be interested in The Comic Sans Appreciation Society. Check them out. They are doing some really groundbreaking work in the Comic Sans realm right now.

]]> By: Reverend Dan https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-149 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149 Hahaha! Praise indeed! I can almost see the distaste in your quote marks :¬)

And thanks for the link, it’s time to stop villifying comic sans and show it some love. Maybe when I get rid of the fish I’ll get rid of the helvetica too and make my site a bit more jovial and inoffensive…

ps – The guy who made the comic sans image I linked to up there; he has badges. I can put a good word in for you if you’d like.

]]> By: Anonymous onlooker https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-150 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-150 Giving users the chance to define their own font is all very well, as long as your content is defined enough to be styled.

*cough* ‘benefit’ *cough*

Pedant? Moi?

]]> By: AkaXakA https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-151 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-151 Brian, the fontbrowser you linked to is absolutely great! Even just for local use it’s pretty much what I’ve been looking for.

Mike, is there any chance of adding the Bitstream Vera Sans Font http://www.gnome.org/fonts to the default list? It’s a great free font, which in particular Linux users have installed.

]]> By: Mike D. https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-152 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-152 Update: I just tried using Flash’s getFontList() function to produce a list of what fonts are installed on a user’s system, and at least on OS X, the font list nomenclature doesn’t match up with the way you’d have to call the font from a stylesheet. For example, Flash returns “Akzidenz Grotesk BE BoldEx” as one of my fonts, but the only way to get it to render as that font in HTML would be to lose the “BE BoldEx” part of it. Other fonts returned in the getFontList() function don’t render at all. It seems like all of the simple pre-installed fonts work fine, but anything with Postscript variations breaks. I’ll continue to investigate as I really like this idea.

AkaXakA: I’ll add Vera to the default list if you really want it in there that badly, but that’s what the custom font field is for! Don’t you Linux guys like typing stuff better than pointing and clicking anyway? :)

]]> By: david g https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-153 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-153 The CSS specs require font names which contain more than two words to be enclosed in double quotes. So:

font-family: Verdana
font-family: Adobe Garamond

are okay,

but:

font-family: “Times New Roman”

is necessary.

It’s in the W3C pages somewhere, it came up on css-discuss a while back. I’m too lazy to look it up.

]]> By: Jim https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-154 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-154 Apologies for being off-topic but I just noticed a very strange behaviour: (in Firefox0.9) if you use your mouse to select some of the text in a comment box and then move your mouse down the text scrolls up and completely disappears. I haven’t ever seen this before. Curious.

]]> By: Bill https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-155 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-155 Jim, that must be a local issue on your end, because using Firefox .9 here doesn’t produce the same effect.

]]> By: Max https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-156 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-156 Bill, it doesn’t seem to just be a local issue. I can replicate the effect here using Firefox 0.9 on XP.

Perhaps it’s only caused by the Windows version.

]]> By: Laura Seabrook https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-164 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-164 Er, actually the best ever font tool I’ve ever come across is THE FONT THING. All it does is allow you to browse folders (and defined collections) to view fonts, and also to install/uninstall them as well. Probably outdated by WinXP or something (it’s PC only, but I’m still using WIN98) but it’s FREE.

Web page at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html

]]> By: Ryan https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-162 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-162 I think you should have comic sans on your selector also ;)

]]> By: Justin https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/06/font-selector#comment-163 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-163 At the risk of a tangential link, let me offer http://typetester.maratz.com/ to the mix. A very cool text editor/previewer that lets you check out how fonts will look on your site.

It has color, size, all the good stuff. Check it out!

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