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› January 27, 2004
Myriad, Futura, and more
There is an interesting post by Jeff Croft on online typeface choices, and what we could possibly take advantage of.
I don't think I've ever entered in Myriad, or Century Gothic as a type choice before, but yet I think it's been installed on every machine I've ever worked on. Same goes with Futura, American Typewriter, and so on.
He did find some reference material that details the percentage of installation based on platform. (Windows, Mac, Unix) and the Visibone Font Survey.
Comments
1. January 27, 2004 11:49 AM
2. January 27, 2004 02:13 PM
Ben Posted…
Wel, it's an automated survey, and probably searches for matches on the specific names of fonts. I'm sure over time more Linux people will run the survey, and it will become more and more accurate.
3. January 27, 2004 04:52 PM
James Craig Posted…
Where do you get the survey? All I found was the results. I guess they could test via getComputedStyle if all the browsers were DOM-compliant. Do you know how the survey was conducted, Ben? Thanks.
James Craig Posted…
The Visibone font survey seems somewhat flawed to me, particularly the Linux results. How could there be a higher percentage of a specific font (Courier 100%), than of a generic font family that includes the formentioned font (monospace 95%)? The survey set seems pretty small (22), and it doesn't appear they trained the participants enough to know how to respond correctly.