Re: Helvetica - International Systems?

FROM : Philip George
DATE : Sat Nov 23 09:17:01 2002

http://1001freefonts.com/main.htm

Something's wrong with their website right now though.  None of the
pics are showing up.  But the font links still work.  Hopefully this
isn't isn't a sign that it's no longer being maintained and updated.

- Philip


On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 10:33  PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:

>
> On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Rosyna wrote:

>> Ack, at 11/17/02, Philip George said:

>>> Does anyone know if Helvetica is 100% guaranteed to be present on
>>> ALL Mac OS X installations, no matter what language is the primary
>>> language?  Say, for instance, a guy in Japan goes to the computer
>>> store and purchases a copy of OS X (Japanese edition) and installs
>>> it.  Will Helvetica be installed too, just in case?  I'm thinking
>>> the answer is probably yes, but I need someone to definitively
>>> answer this before I'll feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

>>
>> Helvetica, Geneva, Monaco, Courier, Lucida Grande, and some other
>> fonts are *required* to exist on OS X. If they do not, bad things
>> happen and you can pretty much "blame" the user for it not existing.

>
> A related question: Is there any place one can find free true type
> fonts? Every site I've been to that claims to have free fonts turns
> out to be a pay site in disguise.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
> OSX freeware and shareware: http://www.dekorte.com/downloads.html
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