New font (5707) choice is a bit problematic

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Fri Feb 20 00:46:16 UTC 2004


David T. Lewis wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:50:12PM -0500, Doug Way wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Timothy Rowledge wrote:
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>>>I just realised that the font chosen by default for the text in 
>>>textmorphs etc is a bit of a problem. Try a $1 next to a $l and see if 
>>>you can tell the difference.
>>>      
>>>
>>These particular characters look okay to me... in a fresh 5707 image 
>>that font should be Accuny-10 pt.  The number $1 does look different 
>>from a capital $I in that font, pretty much the same as before.  Maybe 
>>your text is set to a different font...
>>    
>>
>
>I'm seeing the same thing as Tim. Font is Accuny-10, and the lower case
>"el" (Character value: 108) is displaying something that looks identical
>to digit one (Character value: 49). Change the point size to 12 and it
>starts looking OK. Accumon-10 also looks OK. This looks like a bug.
>  
>

Oops, for some reason I was thinking of capital i ("I") versus number 
"1", not lowercase el "l".  (Must have been my Apple email reader which 
makes I and l look the same. :) )  You're right, "1" and "l" do look the 
same with the Accuny-10 font.  Not sure if this is a huge problem, but 
perhaps someone could tweak the font using Boris' handy StrikeFont 
editor tool.

- Doug





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