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beginner.html
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:14 am what does it mean? |
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When you have :
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font-family : "Arial", Verdana, Trebuchet MS;
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The Arial is the main font, as I understand. What do the other two fonts do? Can you use them as well? |
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quartzy
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:10 pm re |
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| you have to name many fonts in case the browser user does not have the font specified first - installed.But most people have arial so you should be OK. |
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beginner.html
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:44 pm |
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| So, if Arial isn't available, I should go to Verdana or Trebuchet MS, if the browser doesn't have either installed? |
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quartzy
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:47 pm re |
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| yes, thats right, but you should add either sans serif, or serif, then if none of the fonts are installed on someones browser they will at least have either a serif or sans serif font. |
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PayneLess Designs
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:31 pm |
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These are the recommended font families that normally are found on computers:
Recommended Fonts
BTW, when listing fonts with more than one word in the name, you must put quote marks around them. Example:
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| .oldenglish { font-family: Junicode, Cardo, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", "Doulos SIL", Gentium, "Arial Unicode MS", serif } |
A single quote can be used, too:
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| .oldenglish { font-family: Junicode, Cardo, 'TITUS Cyberbit Basic', 'Doulos SIL', Gentium, 'Arial Unicode MS', serif } |
They don't need to be in caps either.
The fonts are taken from left to right in the order that a viewer's computer can use to display your pages. I've just shown a special case of styling using fonts for Old English. If you are using a special font, more than likely a viewer is not going to have it. If you don't list the next preferred fonts, then their browser/system font will be used.
Only Microsoft and IE will use WEFT should you want to go that route.
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