[Pydotorg-redesign] Draft HTML for redesign proposal

[Matt Goodall]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>As for fonts, although a lot of people liked verdana, almost as many
>>preferred arial.
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>I do most of my browsing on a Linux box (Red Hat 7.3), and so do many
>other existing and potential Python users.  Those fonts don't exist
>there.  Therefore I'm not sure that picking fonts should be too much
>of an issue at this point.
>
Actually, both Verdana and Arial are available for X aslong as you can 
use TrueType fonts. I don't know about RH7.3 specifically.

    http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
    http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

I work on a Debian testing/unstable box and I have many of the fonts Tim 
mentioned installed. They're much nicer to work with that the standard X 
bitmap fonts too.

In any case, a bit further down that message, Tim suggested the 
following font order: "Bitstream Vera Sans", Verdana, "Lucida Sans", 
Geneva, Helvetica,
sans-serif.

Lucida (not Lucida Sans) is a standard X11 font, Bitstream and Verdana 
can be installed; Verdana and Lucida Sans are standard Windows fonts, 
Bitstream can be installed; Geneva is a standard Mac font; Helvetica is 
available on everything but Windows although I'm sure it's available. 
There's the sans-serif fall back at then end anyway.

That list of fonts covers a lot of OSs although fonts and font sizes are 
a right pain on the web and it's quite difficult to cover all bases 
effectively.

Cheers, Matt

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