Comments on: Font-families a Web Developer can trust http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MicroAngelo http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/comment-page-1/#comment-8019 MicroAngelo Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:37:06 +0000 http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/#comment-8019 I can thoroughly recommend the Visibone reference material, even if their site looks a little unprofessional - really great service and their Browser Book rarely leaves my side when developing new websites. Sometimes it's just useful to have everything visible on one page, and their technique of scaling fonts depending on how usable they are gives a very rapid visual overview of what's "safe". As far as fall-backs go, I've also been using the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/" rel="nofollow"><acronym title="Yahoo! User Interface">YUI</acronym> Fonts</a> CSS library quite happily, along with the others Yahoo! provide. I can thoroughly recommend the Visibone reference material, even if their site looks a little unprofessional – really great service and their Browser Book rarely leaves my side when developing new websites. Sometimes it’s just useful to have everything visible on one page, and their technique of scaling fonts depending on how usable they are gives a very rapid visual overview of what’s “safe”.

As far as fall-backs go, I’ve also been using the YUI Fonts CSS library quite happily, along with the others Yahoo! provide.

]]> By: Joe http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/comment-page-1/#comment-5804 Joe Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:45:21 +0000 http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/#comment-5804 Never seen the actual inclusion percentages. Intriguing. I'm one of those ex-print designers always frustrated at the limited offerings of web fonts ;) <a href="http://typetester.maratz.com/" rel="nofollow">Typesetter</a> is kind of a cool tool as well for comparing different screen fonts. Never seen the actual inclusion percentages. Intriguing. I’m one of those ex-print designers always frustrated at the limited offerings of web fonts ;) Typesetter is kind of a cool tool as well for comparing different screen fonts.

]]> By: inspirationbit http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/comment-page-1/#comment-5189 inspirationbit Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:56:06 +0000 http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/#comment-5189 Thanks for the mention, Klaus. You're right, it is important to use the fallback system and the stacking order in the CSS font-family. Also I'm currently looking behind the scenes of some web sites with beautiful typography and showing how it can be achieved with CSS while sticking to web safe fonts. Thanks for the mention, Klaus.
You’re right, it is important to use the fallback system and the stacking order in the CSS font-family. Also I’m currently looking behind the scenes of some web sites with beautiful typography and showing how it can be achieved with CSS while sticking to web safe fonts.

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