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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:47:54 -0600
From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
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John-Mark Gurney wrote:

>Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600:
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>>2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a 
>>modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading 
>>Style Sheets?)
>>    
>>
>
>you mean a sans-serif font? yes, most computer display fonts should
>be sans-serif since the screen resolution does not always allow you to
>do that...  (and Helvetica isn't that modern, about 50 years old now
>it appears)...
>  
>
Yes

>As for CSS, it appears that we do use CSS on the site:
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./index.css" />
>
>And part of CSS is letting people choose what font they want to display
>the site in...  It appears at least Mozilla chooses Times by default...
>So I'd more complain to the browers that display with the default font..
>
>  
>
learn something new everyday, thanks for the tip.