What caught my eye in the proposed font stacks is that the author paid
attention to Linux - most similar stacks one finds googling around just
care to compare Windows vs. Mac default fonts.

The size differences might be a good chance to try out the
font-size-adjust property[1]. Last time I've heard about it was on this
list  in 2007 ([2] and [3]), but except for Firefox[4] I'm unsure about
the browser support today...

I do agree with David (and Baudelaire) too: mediocrity triumphs - but
not in these stacks only, mediocrity and the whole web typography thing
seem to be joined at the hip since ages ago.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-size-adjust
[2] http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/88326
[3] http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/87475
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS:font-size-adjust

djn


Cristian Palmas wrote:


> I think (but I didn't try yet) that in some cases may happen that on Linux,
> for instance, one sees the fonts at 16px and on Win he/she sees
> them much smaller. The author himself wrote that on Vista some of the
> choices were smaller than the other similar fonts in the stacks.
> Anyway that article is a good starting point to make our own experiments on
> font-family choices.


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