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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Basically, I always try to follow these rules ... the first is your own preference if the browser can find it the second is a standard font of the same type, typically found on the majority of boxes the third is the generic family, just in case there's nothing else. A list of the core fonts supplied by Micro$oft can be found at [url=http://www.jegsworks.com/webfonts/]this location[/url] and a very simple explanation of font families can be found [url=http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/character_famsupp_194.html]here[/url]. My advice ... stick to for newspaper type characters - Derivatives of times roman, garamond etc. and end your list with [b]serif[/b] for modern (like on this forum) - Derivatives of verdana, arial, helvetica, and end your list with [b]sans-serif[/b] for non-proportional spacing - Derivatives of courier, terminal etc. and end your list with [b]monospace[/b] [code]these are non-proportional or monospace characters[/code] in fact, if you don't really care which family member (i.e. which SPECIFIC font) your browsers use - beyond making sure they fit in with a general theme - you can just use the family generic names [b]serif[/b] or [b]sans-serif[/b] or [b]monospace[/b] and let the browser at the other end determine which actual font it uses, it will work. ... erm ... I think .... [img]http://formclot.net/sig/new-sig-oz.gif[/img] Bug-free software only exisits in two places A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips [This message has been edited by trib (edited 04-28-2003).] Loading...
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