[thelist] fonts.

Alexander Freiria xandercoded at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 13:51:01 CDT 2009


Every computer has fonts installed i.e. Arial, Comic Sans, etc... In your
css you specify, in order what fonts to render to the screen. If the clients
computer does not have the first font specified then the next will be
rendered and so on.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:

> What are you using to build webpages? Are you doing it in just a word
> processing program like notepad, or at the other extreme, something like
> Dreamweaver?
> Dreamweaver allows you to specify a group of fonts as a chosen font, and I
> **think** this is done because if a person's computer doesn't have the
> first
> specified font, it will look for the next one in the list, although I am
> not
> sure how I arrived at this explanation.
>
> Some web developers think it is easier to read a sans serif font on a
> computer screen, where serif fonts are better in print, because the
> resolution is better. I am not sure if this still holds. I still use sans
> serif fonts for the majority of text on web pages. But newer computer
> monitors have such amazing resolution, maybe it doesn't matter any more.
>
> Just my 2 cents!
> Nan
>
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>
> I am new at building websites and am confused about fonts. Is Ariel a
> specific font or a group of fonts? Sans serif?
> Veranda? Please help
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