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Having in mind the plethora of systems out there, apart from the arial/helvetica and the rest of the familiar font families what other fonts would be appropriate for web use?
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Re: typefaces
For the web, the fonts have to be well hinted (a time-consuming design process to make them look good at small sizes) and they have to be installed on the larger majority of web users’ systems (survey results for windows and mac os-x). Here’s an overview of the usual candidates, to that you can add “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode” (Lucida Grande typically on Mac, Lucida Sans Unicode typically on Windows), Franklin Gothic and possibly Bitstream’s Vera which although free is not widespread.
The new MS-fonts that come with Vista/Office 2007 will add a whole series of new typefaces that are well-designed, well-hinted and look quite good. They can be installed on macs but as they are not distributed with Mac software most Macianer’s won’t have them.
Otherwise you can use siFR for headlines.
(another article on CSS typography)
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#4 2007-06-09 09:43:02
- Dandruff
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Re: typefaces
Careful with these (lovely) new windows fonts. Their x-height is really small compared to the usual system fonts.
Oh and since Ascender Corporation can license them, I wish Apple includes them in 10.5
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