Sent by Justin French on 11 December 2003 01:01
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 10:41 PM, Scott Schumpert wrote:
> I was wondering what the listees here thought about font-family. Is
> there a recommended order for the listing of fonts? - Or what fonts
> work across all browsers reliably? (I'm thinking just of serif and
> sans-serif).
Obvious choices would be any font that's been default-installed on
Windows 98-XP, Microsoft's 'web fonts' (which also are found on most
Mac OS's, and the default fonts of a Mac OS 8-OSX install.
Funnily enough, by Googling for "Microsoft web fonts", I found a pretty
cool page:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp
Which links to a page which lists OSX and OS7+ default fonts:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/mac.htm
And some common Unix GUI installs:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/unix.htm
And a whole lot more.
If you take those lists and overlap them, you'll come up with a nice
list of reasonably reliable, cross-platform fonts that can be included
in your CSS rules.
The thing with CSS fonts is that there's _no harm in trying_. Sure,
less than 0.5% of my users will have 'Sassoon Primary' installed, but
there's no harm in me trying that first, then moving onto preferences
above and beyond that. I just make sure I specify a nice range of both
Mac and PC fonts, IN MY ORDER OF PREFERENCE, followed by a generic like
sans-serif as a last stand.
body {
font-family: "Sassoon Primary", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial, Trebuchet, sans-serif;
}
The above specifies, in order of preference, a custom typeface,
followed by a common mac typeface, followed by a common web face for
mac & pc, followed by some other mac and/or PC fonts, followed by a
default sans-serif.
Regards,
Justin French
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