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Font family rules
Saw a while back on some site a list of fonts that can be used in the font-family declaration, basically, a list of fonts to replace the usual suspects.
I thought the article was on A List Apart but I don’t see it there… Anyone got a link to something like this?
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Re: Font family rules
You mean
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/ ?
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Re: Font family rules
That’s the one! Thanks! Wondering if you find the author’s findings to be authoritative?
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#4 2009-03-08 17:35:43
- els
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Re: Font family rules
That’s an interesting article, thanks for posting!
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Eh, take it with a grain of salt. Take the Arial, Helvetica font stack. It puts in Frutiger, Gill Sans, Myriad in with Helvetica. While these are all foundational sans-serif fonts, there’s a wide arrange of variation between them, so you should consider each stack carefully before putting them in place. I do like how they address Linux fonts though.
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#6 2009-03-09 10:15:02
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Re: Font family rules
nemoorange wrote:
Eh, take it with a grain of salt.
I agree, throwing Frutiger, Univers, Gill, Arial etc. in the same rule is rather questionable.
Also the article goes on stating “Univers, a Mac font for older computers”, which is nonsense.
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another problem I see with those font stacks, is that it puts fonts that are usually not hinted for screen use at the beginning (like the mentioned Frutiger and Gill Sans), this means loooots of problems for people with older systems without ClearType, as they’ll get a mess.
Istockphoto.com used one of these stack declarations in a recent redesign and it cause an uproar, because for some people the site just ceased to be legible.
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