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Exploring Web fonts, moving beyond Arial and Verdana

February 17, 2010 By Chrisdigital 2 Comments

Exploring Web fonts, moving beyond Arial and Verdana

I’ve primarily used “Arial” and “Verdana” as my html text fonts. Recently, I’ve been re-visiting that as a rule. There’s been a number of Windows and Mac OS updates in the “wild” for a while now, so perhaps my options have expanded and I thought it’s a good a time as any to freshen up my work…

I take a look at some cross-platform options, font replacement techniques, font embedding and what future standards might offer an intrepid developer down the road…

Filed Under: Web Design Tagged With: Cross-platorm Web fonts, CSS3, Font embedding, font-family, Fonts, Future of Web typography, HTML5