Guys,
This is another one of these conversations/arguments that really get
everyone fired up. I've now read a series of posts that are not much
more than little quarrels - everyone ignore Felix's stylesheets - its
really not worth it. Spend your time analyzing worthy sites' CSS. No
offense Felix of course. I'm talking about CSS written by people who
lead their field and are certainly experts. Their stylesheets are
educational and always contain good bits to learn from.
Now that we're all getting along (hopefully) lets consider the following
truths when it comes to font standards.
1. Everyone's tastes are different.
2. Some people have better vision that others.
3. Some people like to set their Windows theme to be hot pink/brown with
all Comic Sans for system fonts. I think this looks horrid. This
person who set it disagrees.
4. Many people never change this stuff.
5. Browsers all work a little differently and have different default
styles in place when none are indicated.
6. Chances are that this will not change anytime soon, since if they did
work the same no market would exist for one to be preferred over the other.
Just looking at those couple statements you can already see that the web
is an uncontrollable environment.
Back on the designer's end, the following have to be dealt with:
1. The client who hired you to build them a site wants it to match their
existing identity, or become their new identity.
2. The client wants their site to look a certain way for audiences.
The middle road between this webpage tug o' war is simple.
1. Please the client.
2. Adapt to the user.
Allow text to be resized. Offer a way to change stylesheets if the
chosen design may be difficult to absorb for some audiences (too wide,
to grey, whatever).
Those two simple things make all the difference and allow for all
parties to be considered and hopefully happy.
The funny thing is that this started as an inquiry as to recommended
font families across the board. Again the answer has been said numerous
times:
font-family: "Font I would choose", "a font-face your system probably
has that's close to my chosen font", "serif or sans-serif as a backup in
case the first two don't exist";
On font size, I tend to use % width these days, rather than pixel or em
units.
Is this the advice of an expert? I'll admit no. But this is the advice
some someone who has been involved in several hundred projects of all
shapes and sizes and has probably made every possible design/code
mistake that could be made, dealt with just about every CSS bug at one
time or another, and seen all sorts of fads come and go in the design
end, etc...yes.
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