Comments on: Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet

By: boris

boris — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:48:33 +0000

Although I’m necroposting I gotta thank Amrinder for opening my eyes about font stack’s. I’m guilty of never giving much significance to stack order.

By: VashiraPhol

VashiraPhol — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:48:41 +0000

Thanks for all

By: Stuart Haiz

Stuart Haiz — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:39:48 +0000

Very helpful post thanks – and some great updates in the comments too.

By: MightyMeta

MightyMeta — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:39:56 +0000

Technically yes, they can. Flash, if I remember correctly, can embed fonts within an .swf, so you don’t need to worry so much about what the end user has installed, but instead need to check if there are any possible licencing restrictions.

Since all the web safe fonts here are system fonts, they should be fine. Not so sure about the licencing of the Office fonts however.

By: Faraj

Faraj — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:26:02 +0000

Could these fonts used within Flash applications? Thanks in advance.

By: Brett Widmann

Brett Widmann — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:15:53 +0000

This has so much helpful information! Thanks for sharing.

By: MightyMeta

MightyMeta — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:44:14 +0000

The main argument I am making in this article is that most of the new techniques covered here do trip up in some browser/OS configurations, whereas plain old ‘web safe’ fonts (particularly stalwarts like Arial, Verdana and Georgia) are work fine in almost all given situations.

By: wooden toy

wooden toy — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:12:48 +0000

This is a pretty interesting article. I am a Mac user and I have to say that anything that can get round the abysmal font rendering that IE and FF generate on a PC has got the thumbs up from me. But I do wonder about how well any of these techniques would truly work across browsers and whether you are jut creating a problem whilst solving one???

By: Rizen Creative » Nifty links, November edition.

Rizen Creative » Nifty links, November edition. — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:03:18 +0000

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By: Team Roster

Team Roster — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:16:54 +0000

You you should make changes to the blog title Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet | Devon Web Design and Development | MightyMeta to something more catching for your content you make. I liked the the writing all the same.