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Hi

I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Lars

"Lars Hedström" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Lars


er...? In what. HTML?

I guess Arial is the most striking of the web fonts you can use. All the
other fonts which are available for web sites (pretty much: arial, times,
courier, verdana, tahoma) are too um.. curly. You cant use any other fonts
because you can't guarantee people have them installed on their machines.

"SpaceGirl" <> wrote:
>"Lars Hedström" <> wrote in message
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>>
>> I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.
>>
>
>er...? In what. HTML?
>
>I guess Arial is the most striking of the web fonts you can use. All the
>other fonts which are available for web sites (pretty much: arial, times,
>courier, verdana, tahoma) are too um.. curly.

Arial Black and Impact are both much 'heavier' than Arial. If the
rest of the text is in Arial then Arial Black would be a good choice
for initials as it won't clash too badly.

Surveys like http://www.visibone.com/font/FontResults.html or
http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-fa...sResults.shtml
show them to be quite widely available as well.

>You cant use any other fonts
>because you can't guarantee people have them installed on their machines.

You can't guarantee that _any_ font is installed on any given machine
- no font in the above surveys had 100% coverage.

Steve

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Lars Hedström wrote:

> I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.

'g' is quite a light letter.
'£' is about 450 times heavier than 'g'.
'T' is heavier still: one million times heavier than 'g'.

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SpaceGirl wrote:

> I guess Arial is the most striking of the web fonts you can use. All the
> other fonts which are available for web sites (pretty much: arial, times,
> courier, verdana, tahoma) are too um.. curly. You cant use any other fonts
> because you can't guarantee people have them installed on their machines.

You can't even guarantee those. A fresh install of Windows 98 doesn't
include Times[1], Verdana or Tahoma.

Also, did you really mean "Arial" on the first line?

Currently my favourite fonts are "Trebuchet MS" and the Vera family.

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[1] I'm being picky, but "Times New Roman" != Times.

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While the city slept, Toby A Inkster <>
feverishly typed:

> Lars Hedström wrote:
>
>> I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.
>
> 'g' is quite a light letter.
> '£' is about 450 times heavier than 'g'.

No it isn't. It's exactly 100 times heavier than 'p'

Your thinking of 'lb' but as that is two letters, it will only be 225 'g's
each.

Cheers,
Nige

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"nice.guy.nige" <> wrote in message
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> While the city slept, Toby A Inkster <>
> feverishly typed:
>
> > Lars Hedström wrote:
> >
> >> I am looking for some heavy letters i want to use as initial letters.
> >
> > 'g' is quite a light letter.
> > '£' is about 450 times heavier than 'g'.
>
> No it isn't. It's exactly 100 times heavier than 'p'
>
> Your thinking of 'lb' but as that is two letters, it will only be 225 'g's
> each.
>
> Cheers,
> Nige
>
> --
> Nigel Moss.

lol.

"SpaceGirl" <> wrote:

>
> er...? In what. HTML?
>
> I guess Arial is the most striking of the web fonts you can use. All the


No, I meant initial letters as gif-pictures, you can see what I mean here:

http://www.zorn.se/engmain.htm

The sentence starting with "This is the official ..."
here "T" is an initial letter as gif-picture.


Lars




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"Toby A Inkster" <> wrote:
>
> You can't even guarantee those. A fresh install of Windows 98 doesn't
> include Times[1], Verdana or Tahoma.


Well, I have win98 and I have definitely no problem with Verdana.


Lars

"Lars Hedström" <> wrote in message
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> "SpaceGirl" <> wrote:
>
> >
> > er...? In what. HTML?
> >
> > I guess Arial is the most striking of the web fonts you can use. All the
>
>
> No, I meant initial letters as gif-pictures, you can see what I mean here:
>
> http://www.zorn.se/engmain.htm
>
> The sentence starting with "This is the official ..."
> here "T" is an initial letter as gif-picture.
>
>
> Lars


In that case this is nothing to do with HTML. I suggest you repost your
question over in alt.design.graphics - it's populated by designers from all
fields who will be happy to advise.