General question about fonts…

  • I placed “Toxica” as my first font of choice. Since it’s available on my computer that’s what I see on my website. The Gemini template came ready with the Lucida Grande Font as the first choice and the Lucida Sans Unicode as the second choice. I don’t have Lucida Grande on my computer. I do have Lucida Sans Unicode though.
    As I understand it, if you choose a font for your blog and the person looking at your blog doesn’t have the font you chose in their system, the image defaults to the next font in line and so on and so on.
    This could really change the appearance of your page. Is there any place I can go to see how my page would look using the other fonts listed in my stylesheet? Is there a website that will let you bump through the list so you can check out how things look in another font? Am I making myself clear? I need more coffee…..

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  • That’s why the specification says to state a generic family last (serif / sans-serif) but that idea of yours is damn good !

    Gemini still uses the default fonts. Alternative Os will all find something suitable. As long as you havent deleted them. No need to worry.

    jabbok,
    If you use Firefox or Mozilla for a browser, you can download and install the Webdeveloper Toolbar. With that extension you can, among other things, edit your CSS “live” and see the changes. It doesn’t actually change your CSS file, but you do see the results of what you change. Once satisified, you can save the CSS from the the toolbar and then manually integrate it into your existing CSS file. I do it all the time. It’s a good way to experiment and to try different things without all the uploading of new CSS file versions. Not only that, it’s non-destructive, too!

    Thread Starter Jabbok

    (@jabbok)

    Wow….that’s great!
    Thanks

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