General Helvetica Font Problem
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- oldskool
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I have a problem with my helvetic font on 2 computers. You can see the problem with the attached image, what causes this (on all browsers) and how can I fix it. I'm guessing it is something to do with the font but i installed a new helvetica and its just the same. All other fonts are fine.
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- Mike VanKirk
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It seems this might be a problem with your computer. The template really doesn't control how fonts are displayed, but rather tells the browser which one to use. Do you have a link to your site so we can evaluate further?
Thank you
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- oldskool
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Your quite right the site looks fine in other browsers but it seems the font is corrupt on my home computer but strangely enough I have looked on a couple of other peoples computer and on one the helvetica comes up strange as well. Definitely a xp/font issue, I have replaced the fonts but with no luck. It occurs in Firefox as well. Any ideas welcome.
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- Mike VanKirk
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I found this interesting:
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-041.html
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- Andy Miller
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I think mike is on the money here. XP by default does not smooth any fonts (unlike Vista, OS X, etc). Helvetica is not installed by default on XP and usually falls back to Arial. Arial doesn't look 'too' bad without any font smoothing, but apparently you have a rare case of having Helvetica font available, and no font smoothing. First thing I do with any XP machine is to turn on font-smoothing as it just makes the whole OS more palatable. I suggest you follow Mike's link above and turn it on.
cheers.
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- SureLurksalot
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Just to reiterate what Andy and Mike have posted I have also had this problem before on other computers and it always seems to straighten out when i use this powertoy for xp :
www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx
It lets you really fine tune your type.
( I find it necessary to make my font size a little bigger also as the older i get the smaller everything seems to be getting......
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- Thomas Egan
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I have had this same issue. I suspect that I have different version of helvetica that I have installed when I built this new pc. It also may be a postscript vs truetype thing, where they are competing. Do you have Illustrator installed and or Acrobat? .
I first noticed this on the bentobox template. It looked lousy on my pc because of helvetica being first. I modified the css to put arial first and it looked better but helvetica is really a little better than arial in my opinion so it would be nice to solve this.
anyway, dont know if any of these thoughts will help.
Tom
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- Thomas R gebauer
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I actually find the typography chosen with most of the themes to be a bit... Unrefined.
Everything is just too big and sans serify. Take a look at sites like www.aiga.org and www.designobserver.com , icograda.org, underconsideration.com where there are very nice, solid typographic hierarchies established.
Most of the RT templates are just like - BOOOM. Everything so big. - -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
Tom Gebauer
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