[Linux-aus] Fonts (was: Linux Australia Values published)

Matthew Hannigan mlh at zip.com.au
Sun May 15 10:29:11 EST 2011


What, you don't think it would use ComicSans instead?  :-)

Anyway, can I Verdana instead of Arial



On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:40:09AM +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hmmm...
> > 
> > It uses a font that was apparently downloaded from the Internet
> > according to my Safari OS X. Yes, I'm on the dark side.
> >
> > IE 9 on Windows doesn't say anything about it (but then again, Windows
> > has a tendency to ask one dumb questions whilst letting viruses do
> > whatever they want).
> 
> The stylesheet suggests (in order): DejaVu Sans, FreeSans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif. As to how Safari interprets that, Steve only knows... IE would just use Arial because it's the ugliest font listed ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> - P.
> 
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