Re: Serif fonts

One thing to consider, as some have already mentioned, is that you have to
consider what fonts your reader has on their machine. I have a list from
Annabella's HTML help (http://www.geocities.com/annabella.geo) that contians
the results of a survey. The numbers are for the percentage of the users who
had a certain font available.

The top ten were:
1. Times New Roman - 99%
2. Arial - 99%
3. MS Sans Serif - 88%
4. Courier - 82%
5. Impact - 78%
6. Wingdings - 76%
7. Verdana - 75%
8. Comic Sans MS - 73%
9. Arial Black - 72 %
10. Garmond - 67%

Georgia is down at #13 with 58%. I'm not suggesting one font over another,
just that we need to consider the lowest comon denominator, which is "what
to they have." Thats why the W3C strongly suggests always including a
generic font with your declerations.
Sorry I don't have the full path to the list, I printed out an EZ print pop
page and it's not listed on it. You should be able to find the rest of the
list from the addy above.

hth,
Jim Lynch
http://www.optp.org
http://www.geocities.com/actorjiml


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jami Moore" <jami(at)jamisniche.com>
To: <hwg-style(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Serif fonts


> Dale, as much as I like Georgia as a font, I must warn you that there is a
> version of Georgia for the Macintosh that is very scriptive and loopy and
> hard to read. Just be aware of that when you pick your fonts. Why does
your
> client only want serif fonts? Maybe you should show him/her the reasons
for
> using sans-serif fonts. A good page that shows the difference between font
> sizes for both PC and Mac, IE/Netscape:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/internet/_fonts/fonts_gallery.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jami
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale" <dale(at)hiwaay.net>
> To: "Dale" <dale(at)hiwaay.net>; <hwg-style(at)mail.hwg.org>;
> <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Serif fonts
>
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > A great big thanks to all the people who wrote with suggestions.  I've
> > chosen the "Georgia" font -  you can see the page in progress at
> > www.imagineservices.net/~robbie.
> >
> > I have another question about styles.  When I do this:
> >
> > P, DIV, BLOCKQUOTE, TD { font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times
New
> > Roman, Times, serif }
> >
> > do I need to place quotes around Times New Roman?  Also, does
> capitalization
> > matter?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > dale
> >
> > ps please no flames about using px font sizes!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My client insists on having a serif font for the body of the text on
her
> > > website.  I always use sans-serif fonts on my webpages.  Does anybody
> have
> > > any suggestions for a nice looking, easy to read serif font that is
> > > available on most PC's???
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > dale
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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