Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
>> How do I find what fonts are pre-installed on most mobile / tablet / >> desktops ? > > Have you tried $search_engine_of_your_choice? Sometimes that is useful > technology. > “font-list iOS”, “installed fonts Android”, etc, and any variation thereof. I cannot help but feel that this is a somewhat pointless task. CSS allows (and is intended to allow) one to /influence/ the appearance of the rendered page; it cannot (and was never intended to) allow one to dictate the exact appearance thereof -- PDF is probably the medium of choice where such a requirement exists. Trying to guess which fonts might or might not be found in a viewer's browser is similar to trying to guess exactly how many drops of rain will fall on one's head tomorrow -- far better to take an umbrella (if rain is expected), or do without (if it is not). Since the page author has (in general) no way of knowing whether the browser which an arbitrary visitor will use to render his/her page will even /support/ @font-face, let alone which fonts will or will not be /a priori/ available to that browser, far better to design the page to render satisfactorily regardless of the fonts found/used, to serve (via @font-face) those which the client deems /essential/ to the design, but warn the client that no matter what he/she dictates, there will (with 100% certainty) be a time when the page will /not/ render as intended, but will nonetheless render satisfactorily. Philip Taylor ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
