Font

[Mark]

still tahoma
verdana
tahoma
tahoma as verdana
verdana as tahoma

 

[digitalwanderer]

verdana

geneva

tahoma

lucida

'lucida grande'

arial

helvetica

sans-serif

I see absolutely no difference 'tween 'em all.

 

[London Geezer]

Erm... this thread is getting a bit odd. Loopy odd.

 

[Mark]

yeah something screwy is going on with the fonts here

 

[digitalwanderer]

So you're seeing the same thing I'm seeing Ratch? They all look alike to you too?

Kewl, I thought it was something funky with my browser.

 

[Mark]

yeah they all look alike, that's the way the forum permissions are set. No one can use the FONT tag. I'll leave it like that until told otherwise.

 

[Mark]

and the current font is tahoma, as it always has been. So nothing has changed...

 

[digitalwanderer]

Thanks Ratch, at least it's nice to know why it ain't working.

 

[Type_Raver]

Dont like it at all, if theres a chance to revert, take it!

 

[London Geezer]

Dont like it at all, if theres a chance to revert, take it!

CHANGE.
IT.
DID.
NEVER.

 

[digitalwanderer]

WEIRDLY.
TYPE.
YOU.
DO.

 

[Dot50Cal]

CHANGE.
IT.
DID.
NEVER.

Not to take sides or cause a conflict, but it clearly did. Even Dave said so:

The Font has changed.

 

[Mark]

The font is still tahoma though, which (I assume) Dave set when he first upgraded the forum from phpBB to Vbulletin. It hasn't changed since then.

Without cleartype:

With cleartype:

 

[digitalwanderer]

I was gonna say, "How in the hell did you get the fonts to change like that! "....

You got me.

 

[Dot50Cal]

Right, however some things were Verdana which are now Tahoma. I beleive the main forum index, where the forum names are listed is one of them. I cant really put my finger on anything else specifically.

 

[London Geezer]

I was gonna say, "How in the hell did you get the fonts to change like that! "....

You got me.

Legally Blonde 3.

 

[Mark]

Right, however some things were Verdana which are now Tahoma. I beleive the main forum index, where the forum names are listed is one of them. I cant really put my finger on anything else specifically.

Well, like I said we didn't change anything wrt the fonts. All we did was remove the underlines from the links. Maybe that's what's throwing you?

 

[Vadi]

I don't have Tahoma on Linux installed.
I guess that's why I don't have font smoothing on Beyond3d-forums? The front-page is fine though.
I use Firefox3 btw.

 

[StefanS]

I don't have Tahoma on Linux installed.
I guess that's why I don't have font smoothing on Beyond3d-forums? The front-page is fine though.
I use Firefox3 btw.

For the frontpage you can adjust the fonts via http://www.beyond3d.com/myb3d/. As for the forum issues I think you might be out of luck there.

 

[Farid]

I don't have Tahoma on Linux installed.
I guess that's why I don't have font smoothing on Beyond3d-forums? The front-page is fine though.
I use Firefox3 btw.

Strange, I thought, or at least expected in this day and age, that the font anti-aliasing in most window managers would not be linked to the particular font used in a window/page.

Anyway, if you have the right access permission, just install the msttcorefonts package from your repository, or grab it directly at its Sourceforge site if it's not available. It will install most MS Windows fonts on your distro. And then test to see if it takes care of the issue.