Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

iDevApps: Font name to filename?

"ATSFontGetFileSpecification will do what you want, but uses FSSpec..."

[delovski]

Determine whether font is monospace or proportional?

"> Given a ATSUFontID, is there a simple way to determine whether the given
> font is monospace or proportional?

No."

[delovski]

RC: Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts?

"The most common reason why a font ends up unsuitable for use in a console
window is that the font contains characters with negative A- or C-widths.
These A- and C-width values come from the ABC structure and represent
the amount of under- and overhang a character consumes."

[Ike]

cboard - How to determine if a font support a Unicode?

"We know the font Ariel Unicode MS support Unicode U+5929 and Ariel not.
Can any one tell:
1. How do we determine if the font Ariel Unicode MS is installed?
2. How can we determine if a font support Unicode U+5929?"

[delovski]

cboard: Text in my controls is bold-ish.

"I.E. MSDN even mis-documents that it returns X font here, and Y font
there, and when testing it, I found it did not return the font I expected
in Win98 SE, so I asked around until I found a method that seemed to
work properly on all OSs."

[delovski]

Joel Spolsky: Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering

"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts
on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel
rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution
screens. Where they differ is in philosophy."

[delovski]

Texts Rasterization Exposures, by Maxim Shemanarev

"An attempt to improve text rasterization algorithms using only publicly
available information"



"Look at it carefully, do you see something strange? Each line has a 1/10th
pixel shift, so that, in the run of 30 lines it gradually (gradually!) accumulates
3 extra pixels. I'm sure you know how it would look snapped to the horizontal
pixel grid, don't you?"

[delovski]

RC: Which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline?

"Daniel Will-Harris explains the background of several Windows fonts,
including the story of where the names for some of the fonts came from ...
On the topic of font history, the designer of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare,
has written a bit on the font's history on Microsoft's typography site, ..."

[delovski]

Combined font survey results

"How sure can you be that the font you specify will be present on the end
user's machine? This is the latest cross-platform snapshot of the Code Style
font survey and should give you greater confidence in selecting a font."

[delovski]

ubuntuforums - What font do you use?

"Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good font to read code?"

[Ike]

aPaddedCell - Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac
and Windows

"All three operaing systems come with a variety of fonts, many of which can
be reasonably substitued for each other without affecting the design.You can
also choose fonts that have the same look and feel that you want, but may
not be close matches. This allows for much more flexibility in design while
still ensuring compatibility across operating systems."

[XNote]

How do I install and use fonts in Linux?

"In this tutorial, Jack Wallen will show you how to install True Type fonts
on your Fedora or Ubuntu Linux machine and how to make key applications
(such as OpenOffice and Scribus) aware of those fonts."

[delovski]

codeproject.com - Font Survey: 32 of the Best Programming Fonts

"Recently I have seen several blogs talking about which fonts are best for
use in programming. Some blogs list two or three fonts, some list ten fonts.
But I knew there were more fonts than the ones I was reading about, so I
decided to look around to see how many I could find."

[delovski]

SO - Determine windows system wide font

"What is the Win32 API call to determine the system-wide font (in particular
the color) for say Menus."

[Ike]

Mark Simonson - Anonymous

"Anonymous (2001) is a TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Mac-
intosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David La-
mkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-
spaced Macintosh system font."

[XNote]

MS - Fonts supplied with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

"Microsoft Typography » Fonts » Fonts supplied with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard"

[delovski]

szafranek.net - Font smoothing explained

"This article discusses font smoothing, a feature that significantly affects the
final look of a type on screen. Font smoothing produces very different results
across operating systems and browsers. The goal of this article is to explain
these differences and provide designers with practical hints on how to deal
with these differences."