[thelist] Breaking away from "Standard" Fonts

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 11:44:44 CST 2006


On 3/9/06, Rob Smith <rob.smith at lexjet.com> wrote:
> We all know about the 7 or so standard fonts guaranteed to work in any
> browser.
>
> A) Are there other non-normal fonts you use?
> B) What are they?
> C) What problems have you encountered?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
> Rob Smith

Here's some font survey info (as always take these with a pinch of
salt - akin to stats)

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml

http://www.visibone.com/font/FontResults.html

some other usefull links:

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/archives/2004/01/luxury_type.php

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx

http://typetester.maratz.com/

As Christian said choose any font u like just make sure you use fallback fonts.

Ben



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