RE: Web Fonts

One small note on font spec. For san-serif, I have been using:

Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif

Due to the fact that Geneva is on the mac (not the PC) and does
a better job of rendering small sizes than do some of the Arial
fonts that may be found on the mac. There are at least two arial
fonts available on the mac, and one of them, i'm told, sucks at
small font sizes. WIth the above spec, the mac will use geneva
and the PC will use arial.

Gary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Shaun L. Sides
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:13 AM
> To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Web Fonts
> 
> 
> On 5 Oct 99, at 14:28, Lynne McMullan wrote:
> 
> > I am now writing to see if you can guide me in the right direction
> > to where I might obtain a listing or even purchase a cd containing
> > such usable fonts in order to prevent further problems of this
> > nature. 
> 
> I guess what you're running up against is that not everyone has the 
> same set of fonts installed.  For that reason, most designers 
> voluntarily restrict themselves to the most common few, which 
> everyone should have.  Also, you can define and use a font family.  
> There are usually three to four fonts included in these families, and 
> when the page is rendered the browser will check for the first on in 
> the list.  If that one isn't there, it tries for the second one, and so 
> on.  You can define fonts this way in css.
> 
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> 
> Some designers will use a different font, then provide a link on the 
> page that indicates that the layout was done in that specific font, 
> with a download link.  IIRC, css2 will provide the ability to embed 
> fonts into web pages, and that should be pretty sweet. ;-)
> 
> Shaun L. Sides       arch(at)abts.net
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>     arch(at)smoky3.dhr.state.nc.us
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> 

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