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There are many situations when DejaVu Sans, Helvetica, and Arial look equally good. The print designer notion that the design must look identical everywhere is
by erlanger 17y ago
There are many situations when DejaVu Sans, Helvetica, and Arial look equally good. The print designer notion that the design must look identical everywhere is obsolete for the web, which remains a medium controlled by the user. Jakob Nielsen has written a ton on this subject.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoWas that in response to my comment - I'm intensely aware of the pitfalls print designers fall into having remonstrated with several against static design and over specification of visuals. Nielsen is good (perhaps a tiny touch purist for me), I seldom disagree, however, with the overarching theme of the Alertbox posts. The web in theory is a user-controlled medium, in practice it is controlled by a mixture of web designers and browser makers; browser defaults of appearance and behaviour are pretty convergent. Like I intimated, the common user barely knows the term "browser" never mind where the font settings are. Whilst one can overload a pages CSS with one's own stylesheet nobody appears to do that.