On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > On this page: > http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ > > The font should be the Titillium for the whole page, but of course it gets > complicated when there are browsers that cannot show this font and it falls > back to the next font in the stack, which is Tahoma, then Arial. > > How do I know which one the browser is giving me?
Why do you worry so hard about the font the browser will actually see ? As Philip noted, Css is a bout suggestions… The best you can do is provide adequate fall-back fonts; ideally, you'd use a fall-back font with similar metrics (esp aspect-ratio) – insuring a similar flow of text on the page. If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help (for fonts installed on your local drives): http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html or this page: http://brunildo.org/test/fontlist3.html The second one needs Flash installed. Best, most accurate results with a Gecko 1.9.0 or newer browser in both cases. Opera returns bogus results last I checked. For fonts not installed locally, the font-squirel generator informs you of the aspect-ratio of the fonts when uploading: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator PS - Titillium displays quite poorly on windows XP computers with ClearType turned off. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
