Font consistency (was: Simple but decent web composition software)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

This point about being able to find fonts that are "both close to what I
use and likely to be on Windows or Apple" a really good one. Sometimes
it's really hard to do that, though..., except, here's a really nice
tool for the task--that actually organises fonts by *what they look like*
(so similar-*looking* fonts are clustered together, rather than
 similarly-*named* fonts being grouped together as in most font-selectors):

    "FontClustr - Automated Hierarchical Clustering of Fonts
     Based on Their Appearance"

    http://tinylittlelife.org/?p=233


It's written in Python, and the code is available on Github:

    http://tinylittlelife.org/?page_id=255


"James A. Kuzdrall" <gnhlug at intrel.com> writes:
>
> On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:03:33 Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I work for IBM, and use Symphony at work, but Symphony is based on
> > OpenOffice. I have nothing against using Symphony, OpenOffice, or
> > LibreOffice but my posts in HTML just end up looking terrible when I
> > post them to Boston User Groups. They look OK in Symphony/OpenOffice or
> > LibreOffice writer.
>
>     Could it be the fault of the fonts that the HTML browser substitutes for 
> the ones you use in LibreOffice?  I am using "Quanta +" 3.4 (only because it 
> came with SuSE 9.3 and I am not a very good explorer - actually, 
> interactively seeing what is produced is very handy).  I make sure the 
> alternate font list includes those that are both close to what I use and 
> likely to be on Windows or Apple.

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