Re: How to change generic fonts?

by "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl>

 Date:  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:16:48 +0100
 To:  <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>,
"Charles A Upsdell" <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
 References:  0
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hello Charles,
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This is what I found in help:

To display Web page text in a different font=20

On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options.=20
On the General tab, click Fonts.=20
In the Web page font and Plain text font lists, click the fonts you =
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Greetings=20
Ineke van der Maat

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From: "Charles A Upsdell" <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
To: <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:02 PM
Subject: How to change generic fonts?


> On my PC (Win98 with IE6), the generic serif and sans-serif fonts are=20
> Palatino and News Gothic MS.  For example, if a page specifies:
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>      font-family: sans-serif;
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> then the text appears in News Gothic MS.  I find this font ugly and =
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> hard to read, especially in small and normal font sizes.
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> Does anyone know how I can tell IE or Windows to use different generic =

> fonts?  I would like the generic serif font to be (say) Georgia, and =
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> generic sans-serif font to be (say) Arial.  I have searched the web =
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> Microsoft's website, but to no avail.
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> Note that I am NOT asking how to change a user's generic fonts:  only =
my own.
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> TIA
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> -
> Chuck Upsdell
> Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
> Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/
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