[Larixk]

Yeah, yeah, I know, mostly a Mac community but in some time most of the visitors on an average site will be using Vista.

Vista comes with a set of 6 new customly designed fonts, designed by some of the greates typographers in the world. Some ass decided to start all their names with a C so it's damn hard to tell them apart by name. But it's a great set and Vista's potentially huge user-base will allow them to be used in css styles like Verdana, Arial and such today.
It adds a nice degree of typographic freedom.







Note: Consolas is a mono-spaced/console font.


For those (like me) stuck on XP: These fonts come free with Microsoft's free new powerpoint viewer. Just download and install that and you've got them in your system ready to be used.

[steveb]

I managed to download all these from somewhere last summer. All much better than the fonts Microsoft has commissioned in the past (Arial!). It would be good if Mac adopted these too, then in a coupla years we'd be able to use them on websites as live html text.

I suppose it is possible to throw the silly PP viewer away after downloading the fonts?

[Limbo]

Originally Posted by steveb

I suppose it is possible to throw the silly PP viewer away after downloading the fonts?

Yep - install it - then browse to your system folder > fonts - find the fonts and Copy them. Uninstall the software, and paste the fonts back in.

They do look pretty good, compared with anything, that predates them, but it'll be a looong time before you can specify these as default for websites...

[Larixk]

why's that?

If you specify plenty of back up.
I don't see what's wrong with:

font-family: Corbel, Verdana, ......

Sure not everyone will see the page in Corbel, but for those that have it, it's a nice touch.

[Limbo]

Originally Posted by Limbo

default

I was referring to not having reams of decendant font selectors. So you could specify font {corbel, serif;} without the need to specify the more common fonts too.

Let's face it there are only a sprinkling of fonts that can be relied upon to be installed on most computers... and specifying large families is counter productive - testing layouts, if they're fairly rigid, becomes a bind the more fonts you have to test them with, and without...

[John Good]

note to self : test websites with all fonts specified in stylesheet

[Limbo]

Originally Posted by John Good

note to self : test websites with all fonts specified in stylesheet

It's good practice, bit of a hassle, but necessary on tight layouts with CSS like:

body {font:10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}

[Larixk]

with firefox webdeveloper add-on (or CSSVista: Live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously , strange name that, it's not really got anything to do with Windows Vista) testing all your fonts is a piece of cake.
Just make sure you define your fonts just once, in your body tag or so.