[sllug-members]: Developing websites for *today's* masses

[Chad]

On Dec 14, 2007 9:52 AM, Michael Heath <mike.thomas.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chad,
> Most of those 'old school' fonts you see are probably just large containers
> for fonts. Font family just tells the browser "I want you to use a font
> similar to ______". While it can be used to say "I want you to use exactly
> the font ________ and none other", this is bad for reasons I tried to stress
> earlier.
>
> Say you specifiy "Arial". That is not meaining you want to force your user
> into whatever old boring font is called simply "Arial" on your machine. It
> means you're specifying a font LIKE Arial - a sans-serif, clean font.
> Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, and Tahoma are all excellent sans-serif font
> family choices. Verdana was actually designed specifically for clean, modern
> websites. My most common font family string is Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica,
> Arial, sans-serif.
>
>
> Mike Heath

Thanks for the info!  I guess I didn't completely realize that.  If I
want to use, for example, Adobe Jenson Pro, or Juice ITC (appears in
both my Windows and Gentoo fonts list) I have to specify the exact
font by name right?  Some fonts don't have a "family" or am I missing
that part?  If I can specify other families, is there a list of what
fonts belong to those families?  I see the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_family_(HTML)  But it seems somewhat
incomplete; but it is definitely a lot larger of a list than most of
the articles I've read seem to allude to existing.

Thanks again,

-Chad