Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

Subject: Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:50:47 -0700

Technically there are only three "safe" web fonts: serif, sans-serif, and
monospace.

The rest depend on what's available on the user's machine.

The best practice is to specify a cascading list of similar fonts across
devices:

font-family: "open sans", "segoe ui", univers, arial, helvetica, helv,
swiss, sans-serif;

You only need to specify quotes on the font names that use spaces. This may
no longer be required in current browsers, but it's still a good practice.

How much control do you have over the CSS files in confluence?

-Tony
http://bit.ly/tctechcom



On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:

> ...
> I'm currently using Confluence and it doesn't support web fonts. I could
> theoretically kludge that, but the tool chain I'm using to generate web
> help from Confluence would not pick that up.
>
>

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