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CSS and Font declarations
Introduction
With CSS, suggestions for presentation may easily be made for any number of pages in a site. Specific font families, sizes, styles, variants and weights may be suggested, modulo the CSS caveats .
The unusual caveats for use of CSS font suggestions include
- Even when identical font families are available on Macs and PCs, the rendered size will differ. See Todd's expounding for additional information.
- Using
em
as the value onfont-size
renders illegible text in IE3 - Using
{font-family: cursive}
sometimes results in illegible text in IE4 - Using
{font-size: xx-small}
renders illegible text on Macs - Using
{font-size: x-small}
isn't much better on Macs - While preferable from an interoperability standpoint, relative sizing is not implemented consistently (or very well, either)
Specific Font Properties
Select test case
Font Links
- Beyond the FONT tag
- What's wrong with the FONT element
- Core Fonts for the Web
- Recommended Fonts (MS)
- Downloadable Fonts (overview)
- All in the font-family (article)
- Font Faces
- TrueDoc embedded fonts
- Font Links from Webreference
- Yale C/Aim Typefaces
- Standard Fonts
- Use Dynamic Fonts!
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