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October 12, 2018

How browsers learned to support your system's favorite font

Operating systems play favorites when it comes to fonts: they pick one as their default. And the OS’s don’t agree with one another:

chart of system fonts
From https://furbo.org/stuff/systemfonts-new.html

But now when you’re designing a page you can tell CSS to use the system font of whatever operating system the browser is running on. This is thanks to Craig Hockenberry who proposed the idea in an article three years ago. Apple picked up on it, and now it’s worked it’s way into the standard CSS font module and is supported by Chrome and Safari; Windows and Mozilla are lagging. Here’s Craig’s write-up of the process.

Here’s a quick test of whether it’s working in the browser you’re reading this post with:

This sentence should be in this blog’s designated font: Georgia. Or maybe one of its serif-y fall-backs.

This one should be in your operating system’s standard font, at least if you’re using Chrome or Safari at the moment.

We now return you to this blog’s regular font, already in progress.

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Categories: tech Tagged with: css • fonts • standards Date: October 12th, 2018 dw

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August 11, 2012

[2b2k] Knowledge’s typeface

AKMA points to an experiment by Errol Morris that confirms AKMA’s long-held theory that typeface affects credibility. At the low end, unsurprisingly, is comic sans. At the high end: Georgia…which happens to be my favorite font. This is part of AKMA’s larger hypothesis that “‘the meaning’ of a claim is not separable from its appearance.”

My conclusion: Your brain is not your friend.

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Categories: too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • akma • comic sans • fonts Date: August 11th, 2012 dw

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October 17, 2008

Font humor

Font humor video.

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: fonts • humor Date: October 17th, 2008 dw

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