On 06/03/14 21:37, S Page wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Isarra Yos
<zhorishna(a)gmail.com
<mailto:zhorishna@gmail.com>> wrote:
If there is a very specific 'right font', why aren't we using it
as a webfont? In web design, that's really the only way to ensure
that users will get a specific font, because not all users will
have a font, or even any of a type of fonts, installed.
We've been over this. A font stack works well for fallback,because if
you don't have Georgia or Helvetica Neue, most if not all[*] systems
will provide a reasonable substitution for the well-known strings
"Helvetica' and "Times".
[*] Please give specific cases where it fails, preferably with
screenshots, and identify the mis-substituted font if you can. Thanks.
--
=S Page Features engineer
I apologise for my initial wording. As I have tried to explain, I was
trying to ask was why we need a stack of fonts, as opposed to a single
generic. The tangent into webfont consideration was an unfortunate
mistake on my part as well.
-I