Re: Approximation of old font needed

"Andy Mabbett" <usenet200309 (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk> wrote

I'm about to publish (what's the web equivalent of "reprint"?) an old
paper article, whose heading is in this font:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigsonthewing/2446437162/

Can anyone kindly suggest a similar font suitable for use in CSS (I'll
make sure something less fancy is specified as a fallback).

Thank you.

There's always sIFR:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Nik Coughlin wrote:

"Andy Mabbett" <usenet200309 (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk> wrote in message
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Can anyone kindly suggest a similar font suitable for use in CSS (I'll
make sure something less fancy is specified as a fallback).


There's always sIFR:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Thanks for the interesting link. I hadn't known about this.

Although I have to hesitate when I see an article about "Accessible
Typography" in 10px text...

--
John
font-size:62.5%; is *not* "Accessible"

"John Hosking" <John (AT) DELETE (DOT) Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote

Nik Coughlin wrote:

"Andy Mabbett" <usenet200309 (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk> wrote in message
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Can anyone kindly suggest a similar font suitable for use in CSS (I'll
make sure something less fancy is specified as a fallback).


There's always sIFR:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Thanks for the interesting link. I hadn't known about this.

Although I have to hesitate when I see an article about "Accessible
Typography" in 10px text...

It is interesting but there are a number of things that need to be taken
into account when using it.

One of these is that it doesn't handle you changing the text-size while
viewing the page, you need to refresh the page for the new text-size to take
effect. Although it would be pretty easy to write a js handler for this - I
have done something similar for a text-based game written in js that needed
to know when the text size changed.

Nik Coughlin wrote:

"John Hosking" <John (AT) DELETE (DOT) Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote in message
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Nik Coughlin wrote:

"Andy Mabbett" <usenet200309 (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk> wrote in message
news:dhei1pspsLFIFwDJ (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk...


Can anyone kindly suggest a similar font suitable for use in CSS (I'll
make sure something less fancy is specified as a fallback).


There's always sIFR:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Thanks for the interesting link. I hadn't known about this.

Although I have to hesitate when I see an article about "Accessible
Typography" in 10px text...

It is interesting but there are a number of things that need to be taken
into account when using it.

One of these is that it doesn't handle you changing the text-size while
viewing the page, you need to refresh the page for the new text-size to
take effect. Although it would be pretty easy to write a js handler for
this - I have done something similar for a text-based game written in js
that needed to know when the text size changed.

A little off topic now, but what event is fired when the text size is
changed?

Jeremy wrote:

Nik Coughlin wrote:
"John Hosking" <John (AT) DELETE (DOT) Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote in message
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Nik Coughlin wrote:

"Andy Mabbett" <usenet200309 (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk> wrote in message
news:dhei1pspsLFIFwDJ (AT) pigsonthewing (DOT) org.uk...


Can anyone kindly suggest a similar font suitable for use in CSS
(I'll make sure something less fancy is specified as a fallback).


There's always sIFR:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Thanks for the interesting link. I hadn't known about this.

Although I have to hesitate when I see an article about "Accessible
Typography" in 10px text...

It is interesting but there are a number of things that need to be
taken into account when using it.

One of these is that it doesn't handle you changing the text-size
while viewing the page, you need to refresh the page for the new
text-size to take effect. Although it would be pretty easy to write
a js handler for this - I have done something similar for a
text-based game written in js that needed to know when the text size
changed.

A little off topic now, but what event is fired when the text size is
changed?

AFAIK none. I had a setTimeout 10 times a second creating a span with a
single character in it, getting its height, destroying it and comparing the
it to the height it was last time I checked it. If they differ then font
size has changed. Brute force

Nik Coughlin wrote:

AFAIK none. I had a setTimeout 10 times a second creating a span with a
single character in it, getting its height, destroying it and comparing the
it to the height it was last time I checked it. If they differ then font
size has changed. Brute force

Ugh! Want a horrible hack, considering totally unnecessary if one
designs with blocks of text are proportional with respect to the font.
Rally not hard to do, just stop using pixels for dimensions except for
images...

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art (AT) central (DOT) net> wrote

Nik Coughlin wrote:

AFAIK none. I had a setTimeout 10 times a second creating a span with a
single character in it, getting its height, destroying it and comparing
the it to the height it was last time I checked it. If they differ then
font size has changed. Brute force

Ugh! Want a horrible hack, considering totally unnecessary if one designs
with blocks of text are proportional with respect to the font. Rally not
hard to do, just stop using pixels for dimensions except for images...

I was using it for a javascript game, not a website.