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[Design Development Articles] Many older browsers will not display non-web-safe fonts at all, regardless of the method. However, because we now know how to create font stacks, we can add “fallback” fonts for rendering older browsers instead of the non-web-safe fonts in our stacks.

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[Web Design] Is there a web-safe Helvetica Neue CSS font-family stack ...: not precisely a web safe font, though since it’s the default font of Mac OS X, I think a not-insignificant portion of people have it.  I’d like it to show up for people who do happen to have it.  But so far, even though I have some of the Helvetica Neue family on my work computer, I can’t see it!  I’d like for those of us dealing with this stage of the development to see Helvetica Neue when I list it — if only to reassure myself that I still know how to write CSS!

[Web Designer - Defining the internet through beautiful design] Cross-browser fonts and CSS styling rules | Dreamweaver | Web Designer: Ever since the web started, designers have desired to bring the beauty of their favourite fonts into their designs. Unfortunately, we’ve been limited and just been able to use a handful of ”˜web-safe’ fonts (fonts that most computers will have installed) for the dynamic text in our designs, leaving using images or flash movies of non web-safe fonts (our precious, expensive and beautiful bought fonts) as our only resource for bringing them alive on the web.

[Appnovation Technologies RSS Feed] Picking A Proper Font Stack | Drupal Development, Alfresco ...: After that much nitpicking, the first priority of a designer/themer should be to carefully create useful and elegant CSS font cascades (or stacks), so their hard work is preserved as best as possible across all browsers and operating systems. Not every client .

[Internet Insights by LevelTen Interactive] 7 Recommendations When Moving From Print To Web Design ...: To accommodate for a diverse group of users and to ensure the site looks consistent across computers and browsers use web-safe fonts and stack them. By stacking fonts, users are provided with secondary and tertiary options in the event they do not have the intended font installed on their computer.

[MightyMeta] Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet | MightyMeta: Since 2008 Cufon and Typeface.js streamlined the process by offering more flexible and JavaScript only solutions, services such as Typekit have arisen to address licencing issues, and the CSS3 @font-face property is now supported in all major browsers. All of these show a steady progression towards web typography nirvana.

[Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch] Understanding and Using Embedded Fonts: What, Why and How?: In past years, only print design really got the privilege of using some of these gorgeous typefaces, and we web people were stuck creating websites with only the standard fonts that we could ensure were web-safe and compatible among various browsers. However, now font embedding is as easy and as compatible as ever, and as a result, we are seeing plenty of websites come out with unique fonts for blog headlines, regular page content, and other text that is variable and was once not practical to use a unique font that would require images.

[Devon Web Design and Development - mightymeta] Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet: There are many more that, depending on your audience, and with clever use of 'font stacks', are a safe bet. Yes, this is still incredibly limited, but for most uses, especially body text and lower-level headings, they are more than adequate .

[Turn Key] Georgia on my mind: Web typography in 2011. By Tom Brierley ...: However, WebKit browsers Safari and Chrome have problems rendering sub-pixels and because of this, they’re going to have problems if you’re trying to kern to a fraction of a pixel. So, it’s best to keep your kerning to whole pixels if you want the type to look the same in all browsers.

[suniteslounge] Appnovation Technologies: Picking A Proper Font Stack | SunitesLounge: Don't be worried about “web-safe” With a thoughtfully created font stack, you don't have to worry about using only web-safe fonts. Palatino, for example, is a font that is found on many computers, both Windows and Mac.

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