Fonts For Low Screen Resolution

[willythekid]

Hi,
I have a small problem. I have created a Flash site for a client. The site and the font (myriad) look good in all normal screen resolutions. But by some reason, my client uses screen resolution 800x600 himself. I had to create a script that "shrinks" the site to fit the user's screen resolution. This works pretty well, but the letters look horrible, almost unreadable. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could to ? Are there any fonts that work better with this screen resolution?

Best,
WTK

[red01]

you might be better creating it fo 800x600 if you want it to look good... or make the fonts bigger.....

[willythekid]

thanks for your tips. only problem is, that if i make the site 800x600 by default, it looks way to small in high screen resolutions! (this is actually a very common problem in flash sites). And if i let the site fill the screen, the bitmaps will of course get distorted! I noticed though, that the text doesn't look that bad in 800x600 on good screens (mine is a bit old). Hopefully most users use a higher resolution.


/Best, wtk

[aeon]

Myriad isn't such a good screen font.
To be readable at resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024, should be at least 11 - 12 pixels. A typeface with a bigger x-height helps too.

Consider pixel fonts, else for anto-aliased text, go for sans serifs like Helvetica, Univers, Avenir, Frutiger.