Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
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Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
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Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#2Speaking of font differences, the default Windows emoji font is so bad I don't understand why Google doesn't just ship their Android emoji font with Chrome and default to that.
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#3Speaking of font differences, the default Windows emoji font is so bad I don't understand why Google doesn't just ship their Android emoji font with Chrome and default to that.
The windows 10 ones are atrocious but I quite like the windows 11 ones.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-publi...
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#4Speaking of font differences, the default Windows emoji font is so bad I don't understand why Google doesn't just ship their Android emoji font with Chrome and default to that.
The windows 10 ones are atrocious but I quite like the windows 11 ones. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-publi...
The comments on that article are hilarious. Never in my life would I have expected someone to complain about a lack of professionality in an emoji set. Since when are emoji professional?
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#5> What's that? You say you want even more infuriating font stories? Well don't you worry, I'll be back soon with another diatribe about font thickness and antialiasing on the web on Mac vs. Windows.
Did he ever write about this? I can't see anything about it in his list of articles.
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#6I struggled with this recently, upgrading qtwebkit from Qt5 to Qt6. Qt5 used platform-specific height values, while Qt6 now uses win height values, for consistent rendering across all platforms. It’s better in concept, the only issue is that the really big cross-platform browser _doesn’t_ so it turns into “why doesn’t this font rendering look like Chrome on Mac/linux?”
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The windows 10 ones are atrocious but I quite like the windows 11 ones. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-publi...
The comments on that article are hilarious. Never in my life would I have expected someone to complain about a lack of professionality in an emoji set. Since when are emoji professional?
At least the last couple of years. In fact, actual court cases have been fought about their meaning, those cases included actual depictions to try to point out that some were meant to be whimsical, and some were meant to be serious.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysi...
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#8Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to work around IE's broken box model? I remember actually using this[0] hack somewhere long ago:
div.content {
width:400px;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width:300px;
}
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#9Macs are king when it comes to font rendering. It was prioritized in the original Macintosh and Apple still has the most solid font engine to this day.
Re: Font height differences between Windows and Mac (2019)
#10Macs are king when it comes to font rendering. It was prioritized in the original Macintosh and Apple still has the most solid font engine to this day.
Sounds plausible but do you have any evidence?