On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote:

> If there is a very specific 'right font', why aren't we using it as a
> webfont? In web design, that's really the only way to ensure that users
> will get a specific font, because not all users will have a font, or even
> any of a type of fonts, installed.
>

We've been over this. A font stack works well for fallback,because if you
don't have Georgia or Helvetica Neue, most if not all[*] systems will
provide a reasonable substitution for the well-known strings "Helvetica'
and "Times".

[*] Please give specific cases where it fails, preferably with screenshots,
and identify the mis-substituted font if you can. Thanks.

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