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That's cool. I really like the article about Times. I think that's a really good idea, and a good reminder.

Daniel Talsky - 25th July 2003 22:38 - #

Having spent three plus years having to write project reports in 12 point Times New Roman it's going to be a long time before i can face it again. (breaks down and cries at the memory)

pete - 25th July 2003 23:08 - #

God, if there's one font I really wish was in wide distribution so I could use it for the web, it's Palatino Linotype. What an awesome font.

I mean, Georgia is cool and all, and great for the screen, but it just looks so...funky. All those numbers with variable heights and such. It's good for some things, but if you wanna look professional-ish you go for Times. But times is so...narrow and...default looking...even with styling.

Palatino Linotype is so foxy, it has a big round sorta formal looking serif style.....sigh.

Daniel Talsky - 26th July 2003 21:04 - #

About Palantino Linotype, I share your enthusiasm. According to this font-survey it is widely used on Mac, on Windows it isn't included in the survey. However it is on my XP-installation and it used to be on my win2k-installtion also, don't know how it got there though... On Unix-systems it actually seems to be more widespread than Georgia. So I guess Palantino isn't totally obscure as a choice for use on the web...

Carsten Holst - 27th July 2003 06:57 - #

Palatino is almost identical to Book Antiqua, which most PCs have, so you can fall back on that if Palatino isn't available.

Jared White - 15th July 2006 07:38 - #