On 06/03/14 21:37, S Page wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Isarra Yos <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.

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=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