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Paul Watt
Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Cheers
Paul
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Cheers
Paul
Paul Watt said:Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Paul said:Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Paul said:Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
No, but some surveys out there to help indicate which fonts are commonPaul said:Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Cheers
Paul
Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
Hi,
Is there a list of web-safe (if there is such a thing) fonts?
You should use the Webcore fonts
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html#msfonts
And define also default websafe family fonts recommended by the W3C
(serif, sans-serif, icon, monospace, etc...)
Kim said:The only so-called "web-safe" fonts are the generic (fallback) font
family names used in CSS; "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy"
and "monospace". These names are (or at least should be) recognized by
all browsers, regardless of platform.
Alan J. Flavell said:http://css.nu/pointers/fontbug-ie.jpeg
and the others linked from the IE5 and IE4 parts of:
http://css.nu/pointers/bugs-ie.html
I think basically it's a choice between the user's selected defaults,
and the browser vendor's defaults. The user is supposed to be your
valued customer - do you trust him/her less than their browser vendor?
regards
most browsers default to a serif'd font
as such I think its a bad idea NOT to spefict a font ...
Drop the font size down by one -
Alan said:Strange that the vendors should have ganged-up to so affront your
sense of what is right, isn't it?
Actually, he said "most browsers default to a serif'd font - which is
considerably less usable / readable / accessible than a serif'd font".
So go figure what he actually meant.
Strange that the vendors should have ganged-up to so affront your
sense of what is right, isn't it?
As it happens, I usually configure my browsers to default to a sans
font (in fact, one with a good character repertoire, which is rather
more important to me than cosmetics): but if all those readers choose
a vendor who chooses a serif font for them - and at the "wrong" size
too, by your standards - who are we to argue? There might be
something in it.
As I hinted before: it seems you don't trust the vendors which your
readers have chosen. There must be a message in that.
But maybe your readers have their own opinions. The more discerning
ones have already chosen the font and body size that they prefer.
Maybe you don't care about discerning readers?
If you design your pages right, they'll have no difficulty adapting
themselves to the vendors' defaults too, if that's what the reader
accepted.
Oh please, don't start on *that* again! Next you'll be telling us all
to specify Verdana.
... assuming they:
a) support CSS
b) understand the concept of a "font" at all
As it happens, I usually configure my browsers to default to a sans
font (in fact, one with a good character repertoire, which is rather
more important to me than cosmetics): but if all those readers choose
a vendor who chooses a serif font for them - and at the "wrong" size
too, by your standards - who are we to argue? There might be
something in it. [...]
But maybe your readers have their own opinions. The more discerning
ones have already chosen the font and body size that they prefer.
Maybe you don't care about discerning readers?
Seriously, why would someone decide before looking at the text which
kind of font to you? I can understand liking larger or smaller, I
suppose, but serif fonts have a different affect than sans in
different situations. The look of a headline is different than regular
text.
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