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chessplayer · Dec 12, 2003, 11:35 PM

What fonts do you use in Safari (or whatever browser), for standard and fixed-width?

I'm getting tired of Lucida Grande or Times and am looking for some other fonts that look good for web-browsing.

Millennium · Dec 12, 2003, 11:51 PM

I've used Marty Pfeiffer's Nu Sans font as my default Web browser font for many years. It's shareware, but it's worth every last cent. The Web looks like it was made for this font, I tell you.

No joke. Pfeiffer offers a basic version of the font as a free demo. The limited version doesn't look as good in bold or italic, but it will give you a good demonstration of just how awesome this thing is.

And no, I'm not normally a font geek. In fact, I've never gotten this worked up over a font before. It's not something I would recommend for print use -it doesn't look all that good on paper- but nothing beats it onscreen.

Moonray · Dec 13, 2003, 03:47 AM

Now people have finally an operating system with "$10,000 and more worth of fonts" and still need to buy some.

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ryaxnb · Dec 13, 2003, 04:14 PM

I use Lucida Grande. Nice and boring.

Cadaver · Dec 13, 2003, 10:07 PM

I've been looking for something other than the standards... (Times, etc...). I was using Optima for a while as the main proportionally spaced font for a while, but got tired of it. I've tried just about every standard serif variation (Times, Times New Roman, New York, Baskerville, Georgia, etc) So far nothing I like.

I may just have to try the Nu series of fonts suggested in the previous post. They look nice on the author's web page.

chessplayer · Dec 16, 2003, 07:46 PM

Thanks for the replies. I like Nu Sans, which I didn't know about before, but haven't decided if I like it enough to register or whether to try more free fonts.

On a related note, I really dislike Arial. What's the easiest way to make pages display with something else instead of Arial? Can I trick the computer by replacing the Arial font with some other font re-named to Arial?

CharlesS · Dec 16, 2003, 08:29 PM

Well, I gave Nu Sans a try, and while it looks nice with words and letters, any numerical characters look awful. They are too wide, and jaggy.

Is that just a limitation of the demo version, or is the registered font like that?

Russian Mac fan · Dec 17, 2003, 03:05 AM

I am using the Tahoma/Courier combination

Millennium · Dec 17, 2003, 08:05 AM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Well, I gave Nu Sans a try, and while it looks nice with words and letters, any numerical characters look awful. They are too wide, and jaggy.

Is that just a limitation of the demo version, or is the registered font like that?

I don't notice jaggies in the registered version's numerical characters. I know that the full version has better hinting, so that may be why I don't see them.

In terms of width, while the 1 character does seem a bit wide, I don't really notice it in any of the others. Perhaps I should post a screenshot?

chessplayer · Dec 17, 2003, 04:04 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Well, I gave Nu Sans a try, and while it looks nice with words and letters, any numerical characters look awful. They are too wide, and jaggy.

Is that just a limitation of the demo version, or is the registered font like that?

I think that's just with the demo version. Marty Pfeiffer's webpage says the demo does not have "international characters or other doodads" so maybe numbers are doodads?

The page has a gif image here of the font and numbers look fine.

Old Toad · Dec 18, 2003, 03:49 PM

Tried a lot of them and settled on Arial. I like its looks.

CharlesS · Dec 18, 2003, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by Millennium:
I don't notice jaggies in the registered version's numerical characters. I know that the full version has better hinting, so that may be why I don't see them.

In terms of width, while the 1 character does seem a bit wide, I don't really notice it in any of the others. Perhaps I should post a screenshot?

Here's a screenshot from my web page which has a long of numbers in it:

Millennium · Dec 19, 2003, 04:33 AM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Here's a screenshot from my web page which has a long of numbers in it:

What browser is that? I definitely don't see this in the registered version, but it could be a browser thing as well (what with anti-aliasing and such).