Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

Subject: Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:10:10 -0700

Confluence is open source (!=free) so you can have as much control as
you're nerdy enough to take, but for practical reasons I stick as
close to the defaults as possible and tweak the CSS only to fix
problems.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS

"Web-safe" isn't just about fonts, it's about which characters you can
use reliably. Having missing-glyph icons appear in your online help
doesn't look very professional.

Serif, sans-serif, and monospace are generic font keywords used by
font-family, not fonts.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Technically there are only three "safe" web fonts: serif, sans-serif, and
> monospace.
>
> The rest depend on what's available on the user's machine.
>
> The best practice is to specify a cascading list of similar fonts across
> devices:
>
> font-family: "open sans", "segoe ui", univers, arial, helvetica, helv,
> swiss, sans-serif;
>
> You only need to specify quotes on the font names that use spaces. This may
> no longer be required in current browsers, but it's still a good practice.
>
> How much control do you have over the CSS files in confluence?

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web-safe fonts & characters 2014: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: web-safe fonts & characters 2014: From: Sweet, Gregory (HEALTH)
Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014: From: Tony Chung

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