Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I forgot to ask more questions about this. It's a significant
change, but not one that I have not put considerable thought into.What font size to do use for your Pd patches? When you use fonts of
this size in other apps, do you have it set to bold?. I thought
about it and looked around, and I noticed that nobody that I saw uses
bold fonts for text unless it's a header or special case.
I use bold in every text editor and terminal I use, which is, where I use mono fonts. Normally I use Lucida Sans Mono Bold or set Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold. I think, in general it's best to let people choose, however it's not possible to use "-typeface" or "-font" to switch between bold and normal.
Even when reading code. Also, most people don't use 10pt fonts for normal reading. For example, the default font for web pages is usually 12pt or 16pt.
It's because web people optimize for Windows! Windows still has a default DPI setting of 75 IIRC which is really old school on most modern screens. On my current machine I have a DPI of 90x89, which results in Windows websites having a very small font. With small 12" laptops and high resolutions the DPI settings get even more confusing for web and GUI designers. In the long run, zooming/scaling is the only solution that could make everyone happy.
I think that Pd's text is not really like reading a block of text,
but maybe more like webpage menus. It seems those are mostly not in
bold fonts also, but sometimes are.
Menu styling is a fashion thing, which will change every year. On the site I manage (www.dradio.de) our designer made every menu bold, teh NY Times has no bold menu at all.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__