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CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks

102 pointsby kreutzalmost 13 years ago

15 comments

noiblalmost 13 years ago
Surely "Andale Mono" should fallback to "Consolas", "Lucida Console" on Windows instead of "monospace" ("Courier New").<p>Nice resource though, even if 'web-safe' isn't the strait-jacket it used to be. :)
kijinover 12 years ago
Thanks to cross-browser webfont support, it's been quite some time since I've read the words "web safe fonts". I wonder how useful these lists would be in a year or two. It's already nearly useless on a vanilla Ubuntu install, for example, which contains neither Windows fonts nor Mac fonts.<p>It would be a fine day indeed when web designers no longer have to worry about fallback fonts that look nothing like the preferred font.
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nkwiatekover 12 years ago
"Fantasy"? That's absurd. Copperplate is a letterpress type. Papyrus, meanwhile, is a joke, but it's meant to look like bush strokes; it's hardly fantastic.<p>I would like to see the information about the support visible, rather than hidden under a mouseover. Maybe 2 thin horizontal bars where length = %, 1 for Mac, 1 for PC?
timc3almost 13 years ago
Socialnetwork widget gets in the way of it working on iPad
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demetrisover 12 years ago
I get confused with font stacks that have sequences like:<p>Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", etc. etc.<p>Are there systems that do not have Calibri but do have Candara or Segoe UI? (Excluding, of course, cases where some of these fonts have been installed manually and individually.) I would suppose not. If so, then what’s the point of specifying Candara, Segoe, and Segoe UI after Calibri?<p>Am I missing something?
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mckossover 12 years ago
The social button widget blocks me from reading any of the last 10 fonts on the lower left side of the page when browsing from a tablet.
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sdfxover 12 years ago
A sample text of each font in a stack would be nice in order to judge if the fallback makes sense.
Kenanalmost 13 years ago
Previously: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214273" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214273</a> and <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425586" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425586</a>
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kaptainover 12 years ago
I would love to see a similar list for non-Latin scripts. I'm particularly interested to know what a 'safe-stack' is for CJK characters. Anyone out there know?
tagawaover 12 years ago
Handy resource - thank you. Would be great to see Linux included as well, but I wonder if that's too difficult because of the number of distros.
jordanlevover 12 years ago
Cool, thanks! Would be nice if there were a filter or setting to only show stacks that have &#62; 90% support on both Mac and Windows.
grecyover 12 years ago
What do the percentages under the "i" mean?<p>Is that based on OS version, or browser, or... ?
terrapinbearover 12 years ago
Can Linux be included in this list, too?
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te_chrisover 12 years ago
Where's roboto?
tambourine_manalmost 13 years ago
Stats source?