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Web safe fonts in website design
26.02.2010. 12:46
Often by clients the discussion regarding which fonts to use comes up in the inital stages of the website design.
Unfortunately, there are only a certain amount of fonts which are actually 'web safe' as the font is rendered on client side (on the browser) this means that whichever font you wish to display the user must have installed on their machine. That matched to the hundreds of browser versions / operating system combinations means there are only a handful of fonts that are actually safe to use on the web.
Here is a good resource I use to demonstrate which
fonts are *generally* web safe.
