Re: AW: FLASH: Text Choices

[Marc Hoffman]

At 10:01 PM 2/7/99 +0100, you wrote:

>

>> > I had to resize a Flash movie by about 50%, which made my

>> decent looking 18

>> > pt. text a very fuzzy 9 pt. mess. What's the best approach

>> for rendering

>> > readable text at smaller sizes?

>

>Just thought about this problem and feel like asking: What fonts do you

>think are the most readable on low sizes? In my last project I was forced to

>use Arial as it was the only readable font. (yes, it looked horrible (: )

>


If all your text is that size, you could choose to turn off anti-aliasing

for text, which will make it crisper but won't do any smoothing at larger

point sizes.


Verdana is a bit more elegant than Arial and was developed for readability

over the web.  You can download it free from Microsoft.



Marc Hoffman

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