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

[Lucas Paul]

I'm rather with Michael on this issue, at least in the short term, but the
fact that it's an issue at all seems to me to indicate there is a need out
there that is not being fulfilled.  Let's go meta.  Fonts and font
families.  Seems like something where expandability should be simple.  Yet
there are only a few widely used font families.  Why?  Compatibility, it
seems.  Not all systems have more than those few font families in common,
and not all programs would be able to take advantage of them even if they
could.  It seems to me a very strange place for there not to be a
well-established standard of some kind lacing everything together to enable
that expandability.  Especially since the concept of font is such a basic
one.  What is the answer?  Chad's list is a good start, but even he realizes
its limitations.  A classification system for fonts so that you can walk the
table to the nearest font you have if the one specified doesn't exist on
your system?  An International Standard Font Families document?  Perhaps
simply a unifying font format?  Oh wait, I believe that last one's been
tried several times.  I don't know what the answer is, but I think it would
be shortsighted of us to assume one is not needed.

Also, on a bit of a tangent, I wonder what you can tell me about the Georgia
font, Michael.  Or is it a font family?  Either way, is it a good choice for
that field of CSS?

On Dec 14, 2007 8:28 PM, Michael Heath <mike.thomas.heath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Official Font Familes are as listed on that Wikipedia page. Different
> browsers, otherwise, handle them differently. I've given you some safe and
> traditional values.
>
> Why do you want to use these fonts? Weird, elaborate, or decorative fonts
> are annoying inline with the body of your text, and can be replaced with
> images for logos. The Font-Families are simple and haven't been expanded
> much for a reason: there isn't a need. Simple, clean fonts are sufficient
> and should be used whenever possible.
>
> Mike Heath
>
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007 4:49 PM, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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)
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_family_%28HTML%29>  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
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