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Roger,<br>
<br>
You're pretty right. On the real device, fonts aren't that big ( the menu text is smaller than the series 40 mobile fonts ),<br>
the tick border takes about 2mm. The device screen size is : 9cm x
5,5cm. Menu entry has the smaller posssible height ( half cm ) if it
was smaller it would be a real pain to select it.<br>
<br>
I think we should cara a lot more for the end user ( tha casual surfer ) than for ourselves.<br>
<br>
For sure there are some improvements that can be made on the actual
GUI, but I think font size, and GUI dimensions aren't the most
important ones.<br>
<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
<br>
Marcelo Oliveira</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roger Sperberg</b> <<a href="mailto:rsperberg@gmail.com">rsperberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre>Nathan Turnage wrote:<br>> Everything should be scaled down a little bit. The fonts <br>> are a point or two too large,</pre>
<br>I've been experimenting with representing the screen realistically
in online documentation -- it's 800 pixels wide but it's also only
about 4 inches wide.<br>
<br>
An 800-pixel wide screen capture shows all the pixels, but is 8 inches
wide on my 100-pixel-per-inch screen. Making it 4 inches wide cuts the
number of pixels by 75 percent. The type might be realistically sized,
but it's far less readable with so few pixels than it will be on the
device with its reported 225 ppi.<br>
<br>
While your remarks in general make sense about not wasting space, I
think reality may bang headlong with the theory. Me, I'm waiting to
have one of the physical devices in my hand before I decide what type
size is optimal.<br>
<br>
That said, I too hope for more and beautiful fonts. What IS the situation about loading additional fonts?<br>
<br>
Roger Sperberg<br><span class="sg">
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</a>)<br>
<br>
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