Preserved Topic: Small Fonts and Photshop (Page 1 of 1)

Hello,

So I'm needing to make little buttons... With little buttons comes little text.... Is it just me, or does Photoshop really suck at producing small text?

Here is a challenge: reproduce the buttons in IE: you know, the one that say Back and Stop and Refresh...
I copy pasted the buttons into Photoshop and am trying to find a font and font smoothing factor that will replicate the font on those buttons. (copy and pasting the text from the orig buttons is not a valid means of reproducing the buttons!)

Thanks,

Karl

Try the terminal font or one called small fonts, I think they both come with Windows. You should turn off font smoothing, trying to smooth out a font that's only a few pixels just makes it ugly and blurry. If you cannot find a suitable font for this you may just have to hand draw one. If you zoom in on the button text in IE you can see that they are jaggy, simple pixel drawings. Hope this helped.

I'm betting Shii will be along any minute now with a link or two... in the meantime
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22pixel+fonts%22&btnG=Google+Search

Don't forget to turn the antialiasing off. I'll be back with my own buttons.

I've been schooled...

I tell you - If I had to pay for the Asylum, I would!
Thanks for the help...

Karl

I would say try here

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~If one synchronized swimmer drowns, does that mean they all have to? ~

Doesn't Weadah have a small font pack on his server for download?

Yep. Look here.

::::izzay

Yeah, that small font pack is great. It speeds things up a lot, but I usually end up hand drawing a few letters for the coolness factor.

Don't forget to look at http://www.miniml.com/ ...