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viciouslime
June 5th, 2006, 05:11 PM
Are there any fonts which are common to both a default "out-of-the-box" windows install AND a default Dapper install?:confused:
bonzodog
June 5th, 2006, 05:25 PM
Not to my knowledge - Windows and linux both use their own unique set of fonts, which is why a tool has been made to port windows fonts to linux.
viciouslime
June 5th, 2006, 05:58 PM
Hmmm that's a shame. I guess it is best to use windows fonts as default for websites then in the hope that Linux users have also installed the font.
mostwanted
June 5th, 2006, 06:34 PM
font-family in CSS exists for a reason.
viciouslime
June 6th, 2006, 09:40 AM
Oh I know, it's just that it would be nice to have the first font in the family as one I know works on both linux AND windows, so that as many people as possible see the page as I intend it to look. Then the following fail-safe fonts would be shown to VERY few people.

Still I can specify something that looks ver ysimmlar i suppose, perhps Verdana then bitstream sans serif... something like that