Posted by Els on 06/04/05 16:17

Andy Dingley wrote:

> Hypothesis:
> There are two, and only two, appropriate ways to do this in CSS.
>
> font-family: serif;
>
> font-family: sans-serif;
>
> Discuss.
>
>
>
> Systems (with font capability) may be expected to implement these rules
> correctly, with some locally-appropriate choice of default font. Without
> knowing names of local fonts, there's barely any more possible choice
> than this.
>
> There are a set of fonts that are "likely" to be found on a useful
> proportion of Windows systems. These are no improvement over the
> defaults and aren't worth selecting.
>
> Comic Sans is likely to be found and identifiable on a significant
> number of systems. The reasons not to use it are aesthetic, not
> technical.
>
> There is no other way to select a font, given the vagaries of the set
> locally installed. Fighting to choose Trebuchet over Verdana is of
> negligible aesthetic benefit, causes more trouble with sizing
> differences than it solves, and still ignores the non-Windows users.
> Century Schoolbook may well be a better choice than Times Roman for
> solid blocks of body text, but even that level of choice is rarely
> workable.
>
> Embedded fonts are problematic.
>
> So as the only practical decision available to the web designer is
> serifs or not, that's all they should attempt to choose. Leave the rest
> to the local system and its defaults.

Is it enough to say "I disagree with the last paragraph", or should I
also use arguments to sustain my opinion?

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