Fonts on PDA's...

I have to make some choices on what fonts/families to put on our PDA
(the iPAQ H3600).

Space is generally at a premium on such devices, and the screens are
small (but roughly the same DPI as vanilla monitors).

So the question is: what fonts should be there? I can't afford
1.6 megabytes, which is what the 75 DPI directory of fonts works out to,
for example. And I'll leave easter fonts to someone who knows alot more
than I do (which wouldn't take much!) and let them worry about loading
them.

Note that after compression, font sizes aren't radically different from
each other: they vary less than a factor of 2 for bitmap fonts (in
the range of 4K-7.5k bytes.

Truetype or Type1 fonts, while scalable, come much more dearly (and may not
do well at low resolutions), and are about 10x larger than a single
bitmap font.

Should we try to match Palms and/or WinCE roughly?

I know this is a pretty open ended question, but I'd like to
get some discussion on the topic going...
                                - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg_at_pa.dec.com