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CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks
- Kenan 14y agoPreviously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214273 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214273 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425586 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425586
- state 14y agoI wonder what makes this particularly timely...
- gcb 14y agoWeb safe here meaning anything except what it means.
- noibl 14y agoSurely "Andale Mono" should fallback to "Consolas", "Lucida Console" on Windows instead of "monospace" ("Courier New"). Nice resource though, even if 'web-safe' isn't the strait-jacket it used to be. :)
- tambourine_man 14y agoStats source?
- timc3 14y agoSocialnetwork widget gets in the way of it working on iPad
- gamzer 14y agoIt gets in the way as soon as the browser window is less than 1287px in width. Did I mess up my measurement or is this really 1287px? My browser is rarely that wide.
- jordanlev 14y agoCool, thanks! Would be nice if there were a filter or setting to only show stacks that have > 90% support on both Mac and Windows.
- grecy 14y agoWhat do the percentages under the "i" mean? Is that based on OS version, or browser, or... ?
- nkwiatek 14y 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. 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?
- kaptain 14y agoI 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?
- kijin 14y agoThanks 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. 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.
- progrock 14y agoI got so fed up with browsers and their font issues. That I just use one now, that I can read easily at a good size. I override the author's choice everytime.
- demetris 14y agoI get confused with font stacks that have sequences like: Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", etc. etc. 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? Am I missing something?
- Someone 14y agoSegoe ships with some MS products (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe). I think the 'C' fonts are more tied to Windows releases (Vista and 7, probably 8, too) So, I guess you can find Segoe UI but not Calibri on a XP system with a relatively (but maybe not too) modern Office. Maybe there are other requirements (newer IEs might install the 'C' fonts, too)
- tagawa 14y agoHandy 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.
- sdfx 14y agoA sample text of each font in a stack would be nice in order to judge if the fallback makes sense.
- te_chris 14y agoWhere's roboto?
- terrapinbear 14y agoCan Linux be included in this list, too?
- cvp 14y agoI was hoping for the same thing. It'd be nice to see some good FLOSS fonts in the stacks.
- mckoss 14y agoThe 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.
- gagege 14y agoOr if, like me, you don't fullscreen your browser.