On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 22:06, Tomer Cohen <to...@gmx.net> wrote: >> I would suggest not to mess with fonts, as for most usages it already has >> good choices for every operating system and browser. You can instead specify >> font-family:sans-serif, as serif fonts are never looking good on screens >> (but ideal for prints). >> > > That's what I do for English-language sites, let the browser handle > it. But this Hebrew site looks terrible, apparently IE default > settings for fonts have ugly Hebrew glyphs. > > >> If you are very geeky, you can load fonts fronts from the stylesheet itself, >> so you can show culmus fonts for Windows, as well as any other chosen font. >> > > I understand that is not very portable, rather I would prefer to use > the system's fonts, I just need to know what are good system fonts in > Windows / IE.
I use Arial, I think this font looks good in Hebrew and English. When printing I use David, but on screen Arial is good. Uri. > >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 21:46, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Not a Linux question, but probably relevant for some people here. >>> >>> I'm working on a Hebrew website [1] and although it looks great in >>> Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Linux, IE on Windows diplays terrible, >>> terrible fonts. Which fonts should I specify in the CSS, ones that I >>> can trust look decent and are installed on default Windows >>> installations? I could probably just look at the code for Walla or >>> TheMarker, but I figure that I would get a better answer here. Thanks. >>> >>> [1] http://tikun-mekarerim.co.il >> >> >> >> -- >> Tomer Cohen >> http://tomercohen.com >> > > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
