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#1 2007-08-24 6:08 pm
- macandal
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Fonts and examples of sites
Is there a way to know which fonts will work in all/most computers? If so, can you explain how?
Also, can someone give examples of monochromatic web sites? I know about the Andy Rutledge site (well, not quite monochromatic but it has very little color) but, I'm sure, there must be others.
Thanks.
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#2 2007-08-24 7:12 pm
- Stan
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
About all you can be sure of are Times and Times New Roman and you probably can't count on them in Linux. This site will help a bit. Some might differ with it or have sources of their own. I'd like to hear from 'em.
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#3 2007-08-24 9:12 pm
Re: Fonts and examples of sites
Though not entirely on topic, you may find this site useful:
http://typetester.maratz.com/
You can try out different typefaces and specify font-size, line-heights, etc...
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#4 2007-08-26 6:43 pm
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
One font I want to use for my website is Vivaldi. It's available in Windows but not in Macs. I was going to buy this font as Mac & Windows Opentype so I could embed it in my website. Will that work? Thanks.
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#5 2007-08-26 7:22 pm
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
macandal wrote:
One font I want to use for my website is Vivaldi. It's available in Windows but not in Macs. I was going to buy this font as Mac & Windows Opentype so I could embed it in my website. Will that work? Thanks.
Waddaya mean? I've downloaded both versions and FontBook can open them both?
Thanks for clicking.
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#6 2007-08-26 8:14 pm
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
The Vivaldi font won't do any good unless the viewer's computer also has it installed.
You can try using Flash replacement, but you might make some people around here mad.
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#7 2007-08-26 9:04 pm
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
sIFR degrades nicely and it performs a helpful function. It's kind of a shame that one needs Flash 6.0 and DOM-rewriting to support embedding fonts in a page...
Join the MAF AudioScrobbler group.
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#8 2007-08-27 1:21 am
Re: Fonts and examples of sites
Stan wrote:
About all you can be sure of are Times and Times New Roman and you probably can't count on them in Linux. This site will help a bit. Some might differ with it or have sources of their own. I'd like to hear from 'em.
Linux has clones of all the Postscript Level II fonts that are metric compatible with Times/Times New Roman.
If your web page specifies Times or Times New Roman - fontconfig will grab a metric compatible clone (from the URW base35 collection, which is free).
Also - many of us in Linux land have purchased (or stolen) commercial fonts.
I've purchased quite a few - including the *real* adont Base35 fonts, Palatino Linotype (for its international characters, especially polytonic greek), etc.
Where the real problem comes is asian fonts - they don't always do as well in Linux as they should, but most asian distributions have patches to fontconfig that makes it behave better.
One drawback of the URW++ free clones of the Base35 fonts is that they are Type 1 fonts and sometimes don't play right as a screen font. For that reason, I'm slowly (and legally) building a collection of TrueType fonts for the most common ones (IE - Palatino Linotype is metric compatible with Palatino, you can purchase ttf versions of Helvetica family - I've got a few but need more, etc.)
Anyway - if you stick with the "MS Core Web fonts" - most Linux users have those installed in Linux, and Macs come with compatible fonts for those already.
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#9 2007-08-27 6:46 am
- Jonski
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Re: Fonts and examples of sites
macandal wrote:
One font I want to use for my website is Vivaldi. It's available in Windows but not in Macs. I was going to buy this font as Mac & Windows Opentype so I could embed it in my website. Will that work? Thanks.
And do what with it, exactly? Even if the end user had Vivaldi installed it's going to be practically unreadable in anything other than short headlines. So you might as well do those as graphics.
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