Posted by Richard Brooks on 12/17/05 21:45

msswasstastic@aol.com wrote:
> Are there any valid arguments that support sticking to the same basic
> screen fonts? Arial and times being the most common. You can go back to
> every major OS release over the past decade and see that a great deal
> of fonts are supported online.
>
> I can see using the web safe font argument back in 1998 because there
> were still people using very old OS's.
>
> The same thing goes for web safe colors. This argument dates back to a
> time when putting up a .jpg was a risk and the safe bet was a .gif.
>
> Really, is there anyone's computer who can't load a font such as Impact
> online or can't view .jpg images correctly?

As to the Impact font family they're not free! I think most people just
want to load an operating system with associated fonts then a browser
package and get on with it.

<http://www.linotype.com/858/impact-family.html>


Richard.

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