Posted by Toby Inkster on 12/20/06 06:40

John Hosking wrote:

> body {margin-left: 0px; font-family: "Lucida Sans", Verdana; }
>
> What happens if a visitor lacks both Lucida Sans and Verdana? Try adding
> sans-serif as the last family. (And drop Verdana.)

Or:

font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
"Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;

On Windows XP the full name of Lucida Sans is "Lucida Sans Unicode", so it
might be a good idea to specify that somewhere. (One could even
argue that it's a good idea to specify LSU before LS.)

"Lucida Grande" is a font bundled with OS X (and is indeed the default UI
font for OS X) and is almost identical to Lucida Sans. (The only common
glyph that's distinguishable between the two is the number '1' which has a
bottom serif in Grande, but not Sans.)

"Trebuchet MS" is a similar, though not identical font, which was
available with earlier versions of Windows than Lucida Sans was --
Microsoft also made it available as a free download from their website,
and bundled it with Internet Explorer, so it has a very wide coverage. It
should look a little closer to Lucida Sans than a typical sans serif font
will, so I've put that in as the last named fallback.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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