Le 23 mars 2013 à 03:27, Markus Ernst <[email protected]> a écrit : > Am 22.03.2013 18:33 schrieb Alnisa Allgood: >> - font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", Calibri, >> sans-serif; >> - font-family: "MyriadProLightCondensed", "Gill Sans", "Lucida Grande", >> "DejaVu Sans Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; > >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, David Laakso >> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> ---- {font-family: 'MyriadPro', "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans >>> Unicode", 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif} ??? > > Resp. Gill Sans, Gill Sans MT and Helvetica Neue: Are those delivered as > system fonts with any OS? Otherwise, I would recommend not to use them. For > websites, I'd only use fonts that are either widely supported system fonts or > delivered via @font-face.
FWIW, Helvetica Neue has been installed on OS X since the very first beta release more than 10 years ago. It is the default system font on iOS. Gill Sans is also installed on OS X. Gill Sans MT appears to be installed on Windows XP (it is available on my very default winXP vm). But it is not listed by Microsoft as installed on Windows 7 [1]. Beyond that, it is more and more difficult to have a commonly installed font stack across platforms nowadays. No Verdana for you on Android based devices (which is one of the good points of the platform). I've been told that Android powered phones made by Japanese manufactures don't ship with the Droid fonts (a default on Android for a long time). Etc. Bottom line, if a particular typography look is important to your website, use @font-face (and hope that all targeted platforms support it). Otherwise, just a 'font-family: sans-serif' is the safest path. But make sure you don't rely on the metrics of a particular font-family. That is: make sure your layout has enough breathing room to allow for different text flow stemming from the used font. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/product.aspx?pid=161 PS: Myriad Pro is available on all major font-hosting services. Gill Sans and Gill Sans MT may make for acceptable substitutes, as does Tahoma eventually. But Lucida Grande (or the Lucida Sans ones), Helvetica and clones (Arial,…) are all very different. Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] 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/
