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  • rafalski0

    http://typetester.maratz.com/ suggests Arial Narrow isn't a Windows default font. I have installed many versions of Windows and I'd say it had been there for years. Not that it's extremely usable, but looks interesting with letter-spacing: 1px.

    Lucida Grande is grand, but like many OSX fonts, doesn't seem to be optimized for non-smoothed display.

    I still can't get over osx's bad kerning in general with smoothing off.

    On the other hand, some of Vista fonts seem to override cleartype and look pixel-sharp in certain sizes - I never saw it in XP.

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