Re: [boost] Web typography

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-14 17:56:01

At 02:58 PM 12/14/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 >While Rene was wrangling fonts I forgot that I went through this whole
 >process with Bill Venners of Artima.  We ended up with a very different
 >answer, because Bill abhors the idea of specifying a font size; he wants
 >to respect peoples' preferences.  I would appreciate it if everybody
 >would check out:
 >
 >  http://www.artima.com/cppsource/metafunctions.html
 >
 >and see how it compares with Rene's page at
 >
 >  http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/index.htm
 >
 >on your sundry browsers.  I don't have an idea of which one is better,
 >but we should at least get the benefit of that research.

For both IE6 and Firefox, the artima sample sizes fonts closer to my 
preference. The redshift sample is one font size too small for my taste.

--Beman