[haiku-development] Re: Generic Font and FontBoy icons etc.
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:45:53 -0400
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Disreali <mdisreali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 7/30/12, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Once this is done alter this block of moveable type icon for
>> each font type by putting a "TT", "Type 1", "OpenType", etc.
>> overlay on top similar to have we have different flags for
>> compression types on a generic compression icon or document
>> overlays on a generic document icon.
>
> I don't care for all fonts having the same icon with an overlay.
> I just booted a old PC with BeOS R5 to see how it dealt with font icons.
> Truetype fonts had the TT icon, but PostScript ones had an "A". (This is
> also how font icons are done in Windows.) I really like that setup because
> it is much easier to tell what type of font you are dealing with with out
> having to strain to read an overlay flag. For OpenType fonts simply use a
> capital "O".
>
> I found these examples. The are probably windows icons, but they convey what
> the represent easily without extraneous flags.
>
> http://www.scrappingtable.com/i/About%20Fonts/font_file_types.jpg
I suppose that you could make "TT", "O", "A", "T1", etc. icons
resembling moveable type blocks.
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