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When the requested font is not available, I believe Firefox selects the first font, in alphabetical order, that contains the glyphs. So in my case it uses Arial Unicode MS for the missing fonts.
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On Windows XP with ClearType on, Lucida Sans Unicode looks great. With standard smoothing, however, at some point sizes the hinting causes the P to be off-center within the circle. MS Reference Sans Serif does better when ClearType is off. I haven't seen what it does with ClearType on.
 
On Windows XP with ClearType on, Lucida Sans Unicode looks great. With standard smoothing, however, at some point sizes the hinting causes the P to be off-center within the circle. MS Reference Sans Serif does better when ClearType is off. I haven't seen what it does with ClearType on.
  

Revision as of 02:09, 10 August 2007

The phonorecord copyright symbol is ℗ (U+2117), not ⓟ (U+24C5).

The regular copyright symbol is © (U+00A9).

Fonts on my system that contain ℗

Font 7pt 8pt 9pt 10pt 11pt 12pt 13pt 14pt 16pt 18pt
Arial Unicode MS ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
Lucida Sans Unicode ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS Gothic ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS Mincho ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS PGothic ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS PMincho ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS UI Gothic ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©
MS Reference Sans Serif ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗© ℗©

Analysis

When the requested font is not available, I believe Firefox selects the first font, in alphabetical order, that contains the glyphs. So in my case it uses Arial Unicode MS for the missing fonts.

On Windows XP with ClearType on, Lucida Sans Unicode looks great. With standard smoothing, however, at some point sizes the hinting causes the P to be off-center within the circle. MS Reference Sans Serif does better when ClearType is off. I haven't seen what it does with ClearType on.

Availability

Lucida Sans Unicode should be available on all Windows 2000 and newer systems, maybe also Windows 98 (I found conflicting references). Lucida Grande is the equivalent on Mac OS X.

MS Reference Sans Serif will only be present if Encarta or Office 2007 is installed.