Re: font for legibility of numeric characters

Jerrold Maddox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.svg.devel
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David

I have been seeing how well Palatino and Palatino Linotype work for text:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/fourquartets/fourquartets.html

I revised the  site using them for numerals. It is a good face and has been
on the Mac since the '80s.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/fourquartets/numberspalatino.html

Palatino Linotype also have excellent support for non-Latin scripts.

Jerry

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:40 AM, David Dailey <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
>
> Does anyone have recommendations for a font-family that would be
>
> a) Widely available for use across browsers in SVG
>
> b) Rendered consistently across browsers in SVG
>
> c) Easily legible for numeric characters?
>
> The last time I experimented with font support in SVG across browsers (a
> year or two ago) the results were very discouraging: even if fonts were
> installed and visible in HTML, they might not be for some browsers in SVG.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David
>
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