Talk:Verdana

message: Someone here contributed the comment that Verdana exists on 93% of all computers according to a "survey". Is there a reference to this survey or to any survey that quantifies the percentage of machines that have any particular font installed?
:Well I found some web pages that gave a similar number for installations of MSIE but it looks dubious to me, so I removed it until someone substantiates. --Grouse 14:22, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Prologue

message: And elementary difference. A typeface such as Times New Roman or Verdana, consists of many fonts which are differentiated by weight, angle and size, e.g.
*12pt Verdana Bold Italic
*16pt Verdana Normal
*9pt Verdana Italic
The fonts are adjusted for visual balance. For example, if you magnified an 8pt Time font to match the size of a 12pt one, they would not be identical. The more popular electronic fonts have also been adjusted (hinted) to improve rendering at small sizes. dramatic 21:54, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Font vs Typeface 

message: Is this used for highway signs?  It looks very similar to the font used for highway signs.  If it used on highway signs, mention it in the article. --SuperDude 15:20, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highways 

message: I've tagged the "bug" section with unreferenced.  If someone doesn't soon add proof, including details of whether the bug still applies, this needs to be removed. Superm401 - Talk 02:58, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We have a problem - Wikipedia's description of the bug is the clearest one around, and has been copied and referenced widely. In searching for references I've avoided anything too similar to this article's wording. Also, in this field, most research and information is published in blogs (many of them highly reputable) e.g. to date, all information on the beta of Internet Explorer 8 has been released by way of various Microsoft blogs. I found several descriptions of the phenomenon where the author stated they were using verdana but hadn't realised that the problem they were describing was specific to verdana. The bug also caused issues with the wikimedia codebase. Any detailed description probably lies within Microsoft's bug tracking database, which is not publically accessible. The bug is self-verifying in the example given, so I think that in the circumstances we need to accept minimal referencing. Removing the content would be a disservice.dramatic (talk) 17:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug 

message: Is Verdana not the font used on nearly every website, Wikipedia and YouTube included? Should not some mention of this be made?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.68.225 (talk) 18:48, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not. Wikipedia's default stylesheet and Youtube just specify "sans serif", the font choice is left up to the browser. You probably have your default font set to Verdana, that's all.—Chowbok ☠ 21:23, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Youtube uses Arial as its main font, or at least this is the font which appears for Windows users, even if the default sans-serif font in your browser isn't set as Arial. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 15:47, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Font? 

message: I'm surprised there's no section about IKEA's choice in 2009 to use Verdana (replacing Futura) for all their publications; there was quite some controversy from the design community.  — Edokter (talk) —  18:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  IKEA controversy 

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thread_title:  External links modified