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Posted by Kim Andrι Akerψ on 05/06/06 02:39
Albert Wiersch wrote:
> I'm implementing a check for web-safe typefaces. I consider these to
> be available on about 90% of graphical browsers. Here is the list I
> have so far:
>
> arial, arial black, arial narrow, comic sans, comic sans serif,
> courier, courier new, cursive, fantasy, georgia, helvetica, impact,
> monospace, sans-serif, serif, symbol, times, times new roman,
> trebuchet, verdana
>
> Any comments? Any issues with the above list? Is there any typeface I
> missed that is commonly used and supported? Thanks!
Since you asked: "courier*" (or at least "courier new"), "arial*",
"comic sans*", "times new roman", "trebuchet", "impact" and "verdana"
are among the fonts in your list that are Windows-specific. IIRC, Mac
and Linux, to mention two of the more popular platforms, do not have
these, unless you find a version of the font for your platform to
manually download and install.
The only truly "web-safe" fonts are: serif, sans-serif, cursive,
fantasy and monospace; these are generic font families, and will use
the font that's used in the browser settings for these generic font
types.
You're free to use whatever font you like, but as a rule of thumb,
always provide a list of possible font families that end with a generic
font family as a fallback in case the user doesn't have any of the
fonts you've specified.
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Kim AndrΓ© AkerΓΈ
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