As an opinionated piece of advice, I'd recommend the ultimate font-stack of
'customfont', sans-serif/serif. The user preference and browser/OS know best.
And you definitely don't want to specify Arial before Helvetica ;)
Regards,
Barney Carroll
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On 25 Sep 2011, at 20:25, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You would set up your font stack such as: h1{font-family: 'mycustomfont',
> arial, helvetica, sans-serif;} the fallback being arial, etc which would
> display if the custom-for whatever reason-didn't.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Elli Vizcaino <elli...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Wanted to know the level of support w embedding fonts and if it will
>>>> require Javascript to enforce compliancy w all major browsers?
>>>>
>>>> Elli
>>>
>>> Support for @font-face is excellent including our friends IE 6/7/8/9. Not
>>> supported in Camino at least at present. Nor in OperaMini [a mobile
>>> browser]. However, with a decent fallback font you are still good to go. No
>>> js required for open-source [free] webfonts from a repository such as
>>> FontSquirrel.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> F. Goudy
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks David! When you wrote "fallback font" - how should this be set up in
>> the CSS? Can you elaborate?
>>
>> Elli Vizcaino
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