Posts Tagged ‘fonts’

Good News For All Us Font Freaks

I grouse frequently and often about how limited the selection of “core” fonts is with which to use in web design. Some say there are 16. Some say there are only 3. 16 or 3 it’s bound to come up with a client that the font you’ve used is “too clinical”,”schoolkid-like”,”typewriter-ish”,”dull”,”really bad”,”bad, awful, [...]

Typography or font-weight,which is the culprit here?

These are 2 screenshots of paragraphs, the first image shows arial with font weight set to normal and about 14px in FF,the second in IE 7.
Just to make certain it wasn’t a flaw in the stylesheet I wrote I checked this issue on many other webpages of very well known CSS experts and noticed the [...]

Arial,Helvectica,sans-serif ? Oh thanks Microsoft.

I used to include Helvectica in my font string by rote. I never really looked at it in action. I admit I never thought much about it. Until I wanted to use some new fonts and wondered why the next font down in my font string showed. Well, Helvectica is a universal [...]