Hello all,
I have been working on my web site for almost a month now. I have been using Verdana as the main font but now I feel like its time for a change. I was woundering if anybody could suggest a good looking and professional font. I have a few ideas but I'm looking for a font that is most widly accepted. Like a font that is default to all OS's or something because I want the font that I use to be viewible in all browsers but I don't know what fonts are supported in what OS's. So if anybody could give me suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!
You can use any font you like and make it viewable in all cases by embedding it. Here's some links that were provided to me in the past by fredmv and pyro:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml">http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web ... efault.htm</a><!-- m -->
-DanOh! I didn't think about that...
Thanks dan!Np 
Well I've been looking and it seems that it won't work in Mozilla. I have seen some of the examples on the sites and all the fonts look the same in Mozilla so I don't think it will work.
Can anyone suggest a good looking font that is common on all OS's. I think I'll just go with that since what Dan suggested doesn't seem to work.
The strongest "suggestion" you can make to all browsers is the generic font family. Of course this should be the last entry in any font-family declaration so you're probably already there. For Verdana the generic family would be sans-serif. Many browsers will have helvetica and arial in that general family.Some of my favorites:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
"Times New Roman", Times, serif
Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif
"Palatino Linotype", Palatino, "Times New Roman", Times, serif
"Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
"Courier New", Courier, monospaceCommon Windows Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)
Common Mac Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-MacResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)
Common Unix Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)
I have been working on my web site for almost a month now. I have been using Verdana as the main font but now I feel like its time for a change. I was woundering if anybody could suggest a good looking and professional font. I have a few ideas but I'm looking for a font that is most widly accepted. Like a font that is default to all OS's or something because I want the font that I use to be viewible in all browsers but I don't know what fonts are supported in what OS's. So if anybody could give me suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!
You can use any font you like and make it viewable in all cases by embedding it. Here's some links that were provided to me in the past by fredmv and pyro:<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml">http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web ... efault.htm</a><!-- m -->
-DanOh! I didn't think about that...
Thanks dan!
Np Well I've been looking and it seems that it won't work in Mozilla. I have seen some of the examples on the sites and all the fonts look the same in Mozilla so I don't think it will work.Can anyone suggest a good looking font that is common on all OS's. I think I'll just go with that since what Dan suggested doesn't seem to work.
The strongest "suggestion" you can make to all browsers is the generic font family. Of course this should be the last entry in any font-family declaration so you're probably already there. For Verdana the generic family would be sans-serif. Many browsers will have helvetica and arial in that general family.Some of my favorites:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
"Times New Roman", Times, serif
Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif
"Palatino Linotype", Palatino, "Times New Roman", Times, serif
"Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
"Courier New", Courier, monospaceCommon Windows Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)
Common Mac Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-MacResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)
Common Unix Fonts (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml">http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-famil ... ults.shtml</a><!-- m -->)