FC4's Firefox is huge

[Rickey Moore]

--- James Wilkinson <james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rickey Moore wrote:
> > Thanks!! That did help... now I'm looking for a good font for
> Firefox
> > that has slashed zeros, that doesn't look like teleype font. What
> do
> > you use?
> 
> Well, at the moment, mutt in gnome-terminal...
> 
> Outside terminals, I'm rather partial to a font called Gill Sans,
> from
> the 1930s. It seems to be going through a revival in Britain (in
> books,
> commercial signs, and other places where professional designers
> have a
> hand in things). It's both classical and modern-looking in a 1930s
> way.
> And it's not bundled with Windows or Office, which counts against
> Arial
> and Times for professional designers.
> 
> My copy comes from an old Lotus Smartsuite CD.
> 
> It doesn't have slashed zeros, but the letter O is simply a circle,
> whereas the zero is definitely an oval. They're very obviously
> dissimilar.
> 
> A quick look in Character Map suggests something like Nimbus Sans L
> would have the same properties.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
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