Re: web safe fonts

Ooops... My bad! Sorry about that... I misread your original post.

For fonts, these are the standard sets:

Times New Roman, Times, serif
Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Courier New, Courier, monospace

That's about it for "safe" fonts, and these are the Windows and Mac
versions. You should also look into the Bitstream Font Player, which allows
you to use a select set of decorative fonts, available from Bitstream or,
using their building software, some available on your system. It's a bit
complex, but works in Netscape 4 and MSIE 5.

Good luck! :-)
Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Harel" <nate(at)email.com>
To: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 18:46
Subject: Re: web safe fonts


| Thanks for the information Kehvan, but my question was really about fonts,
| not colors. I am interested in finding what fonts will render correctly
...
|
| Nate
|
|
|
| At 3/29/2001 06:30 PM, you wrote:
| >Nate,
| >
| >Sorry about this, but <heh heh heh> you gotta GUESS! As can be seen by
| >recent posts on here, it's alleged that there are only 20 or so truely
| >"Web-safe" colors, and they're apparently crap. In your previous post,
you
| >asked about cookies for an art site. If this is for the same thing, I
would
| >say that to try to force the artwork into 256 colors would be a
disservice.
| >
| >I personally code for 24-bit (TrueColor, 16.7 million colors) format. I
| >would suggest you do this too. Most operating systems have a means to
change
| >your display to lesser values, 16-bit (65K colors), 15-bit (32K colors),
or
| >8-bit (256 colors). If it's that important, code you page template to
look
| >good, then look at it with a reduced color pallette, and then make
changes
| >until it looks good in the formats you want.
| >
| >Of course, users of less than 24-bit color KNOW that some websites just
| >aren't gonna look good, no matter what, so they expect it. If you can
find a
| >set of colors that look good in reduced pallettes, COOL! Use it. But
you'll
| >have to do a lot of testing.
| >
| >For the record, the Netscape 216 color set are combinations of RED,
GREEN,
| >and BLUE that have hex values of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF. Example:
000099
| >is a medium blue that is supposed to be web-safe (but isn't always) --
it's
| >built from 00 RED, 00 GREEN, and 99 BLUE. This is about the only set of
| >colors that are agreed to be web-safe, but aren't always.
| >
| >If you use Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop for graphics, or Homesite or
| >Dreamweaver for HTML, these programs have (or should have) the Netscape
216
| >pallette as an option. Use that. But you might not like the look. I still
| >say that you should build for 24-bit and then see how it degrades, and
| >adjust accordingly.
| >
| >Hope this helps,
| >Kehvan
| >
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: "Nate Harel" <nate(at)email.com>
| >To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
| >Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 17:19
| >Subject: web safe fonts
| >
| >
| >| Hi all,
| >|
| >| Can someone suggest to me what the best or most reliable "web safe"
fonts
| >| are to use?
| >|
| >| Thanks
| >|
| >| Nate
| >|
| >|
|
|

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