Just curious, why does the SDMB use a different font for the Title and the Message (as a default) and not just a bolded version of the Message for the Title?
Follow up, what is the font for the Title? I ask because (to me) it’s ugly. No offense intended.
It’s not just the title. It’s all the smaller text. I think it’s to set off what is really part of the post, and what isn’t. The title gets grouped with all the other little things.
And the font differs. It’s the first one that you have on the following list:
[ol]
[li]Verdana (A font that comes with Microsoft word)[/li][li]Geneva (an old Mac font)[/li][li]Lucida (a font with proportionally larger lowercase letters)[/li][li]Lucida Grande (the Mac version of Lucida with a few more characters.)[/li][li]Arial (A Microsoft version of Helvetica–used to get around copyright)[/li][li]Helvetica (A really basic font)[/li][li]your default sans-serif font. (when all else fails, use whatever your browser has set up.)[/li][/ol]
Incidentally, the actual font used for messages, by default, is the first font you have of the following:
[ol]
[li]Trebuchet MS (A font Microsoft designed for the web.)[/li][li]Arial[/li][li]Verdana[/li][li]your default sans-serif font[/li][/ol]
Oh, and the official answer will likely be that that’s just the way the software came.
When I say basic about Helvetica, I mean in the sense of being old, and ubiquitous, not that it’s a bad font. Many people still prefer it to Arial, and I know some people who have made it their default font for their computer. It was designed back when font development was somewhat more artistic, or so I’ve been told.
I noticed it when I started this thread. In case you have a different font default you can see a screen capture here.
Sans serif fonts that use a serifed capitol ‘I’ are just ugly, imo.
We’re big on system defaults – that way if/when we upgrade there’s not a lot of tweaking that needs to be done. Better for you, easier for us. The further a system gets away from the default settings the more complicated it becomes to manage. This is also why we don’t install “hacks” – they go away in upgrades and have to be manually reinstalled and it gets complicated.
