GeneFC wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:33 pm
onekk wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:41 am
I know that it may be not popular but as MS has deprecated (end of life) Windows 7 and probably 8.1 too
Completely irrelevant. Any OS can have and use virtually any font.
Gene
I could disagree as Arial was used by MS and then they changed standard font name supplied with the OS.
But sadly even Helvetica is not a standard name, (it was if I i don't go wrong an Adobe TM) better use Serif, Sans Serif, Fixed (or monospaced) to design family of fonts,.
Linux and probably MacOS use fontconfig Windows other things to set fonts, so the matter is not really plain.
I think that a multiOS toolkit like Qt should have some OS agnostic ways to define things across different OS but when dealing with fonts even "metric compatibility" is difficult to have and manage across different OS, not counting HighDpi screens and similar things that could complicate things.
It resemble the start of IBM compatible computing graphics saga EGA, VGA, XGA if you remember.
I'm confident that developer will find a correct way to implement things.
Regards
Carlo D.