Sharp text wanted in navigation bar 3

[SpencerApril]

Other websites I see have clear yet small text in navigation bars and other apparently bitmapped areas, but mine gets fuzzy when reduced to a small but reasonable size. What to do?

 

[deecee]

are youusing images or text

i like verdana and formatted to about 10px size

<signature>
sometime you just gotta say &quot;WHAT THE @#*% !!&quot;
</signature>

 

[luds]

if you're using images then it's hard to keep sharp lettering when the size gets smaller.... but as deecee says verdana's a good font when the point size gets small.

Have you an example of a nav bar that you like?

 

[lebisol]

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&quot;keep sharp lettering when the size gets smaller&quot;
= Micro Buttons

if ur a PS lover ;-)

http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=microbuttons2

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as suggested...experiment with fonts &quot;system,arial,verdana,geneva...)
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All the best!

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[Stoy]

If you are using text as an image on a transparent background, I have found that when I &quot;save for web&quot; it works well to select a grey matte color that is lighter then the text but darker then the background. It helps keep the text crisper but without a slight white outline.

 

[Julianne]

They are probably using &quot;pixel fonts&quot; within image files. Pixel fonts are specially designed to remain legible at small sizes. Search on Google for some free ones, such as those here...

http://www.iamcal.com/misc/fonts/

http://04.jp.org/

(follow the link for Bitmap Font)

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