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In addition to what coderdude said, not everybody has a browser that supports custom fonts, or has custom fonts enabled, so if your site depends on custom font
by thristian 14y ago
In addition to what coderdude said, not everybody has a browser that supports custom fonts, or has custom fonts enabled, so if your site depends on custom font glyphs for navigation you could be making it unusable.
Sticking to glyphs that are part of standard Unicode should be fine - those should render no matter what font the browser happens to use by default.
- Silhouette 14y agoSticking to glyphs that are part of standard Unicode should be fine - those should render no matter what font the browser happens to use by default. As long as your font includes the entire Unicode character set, that is. It would be a good idea to check that any glyph you were going to rely on for a site like HN was universally supported among common system fonts. Different platforms provide different fonts as standard, and even the likes of Arial and Verdana don't have 100% coverage.