Eustace wrote:
> Maybe you will find this list of 21 web-safe font families useful:
>
> http://snipplr.com/view/15545/list-o...font-families/
Useful for amusement, maybe, but what is humor to a knowledgeable person can
be disinformation to others.
It's really hilarious, or horrendous, depending on whether you take it as a
joke or seriously.
To begin with, 3 of the 21 fonts listed there (Symbol, Webdings, and
Wingdings) are among the very few fonts around that are not web-safe in the
very primitive but fundamental sense that if text contains only the most
common Ascii characters (such as letters A to Z), it gets rendered
recognizably when a particular font is used on a simplistic browser that
does not know that a font lacks those characters.
Moreover, Courier is rather safe if you want to use a font that gets very
crusty in large font sizes. Arial Black is just awful for almost any use, so
it's safe if you want to make people disgusted. Comic Sans MS is not quite
as safe, since a few users may actually like it in some contexts.
And that's just the start. I bet the apparently anonymous author of the list
did not actually check what his own pages would look like in each of the 21
fonts he or she declares as "web-safe". Still less did the anonymous person
who pointlessly copied the list to another page.
--
Yucca,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
