OT: web fonts

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 22:06, Tomer Cohen <tomer at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I would suggest not to mess with fonts, as for most usages it already has
>> good choices for every operating system and browser. You can instead specify
>> font-family:sans-serif, as serif fonts are never looking good on screens
>> (but ideal for prints).
>>
>
> That's what I do for English-language sites, let the browser handle
> it. But this Hebrew site looks terrible, apparently IE default
> settings for fonts have ugly Hebrew glyphs.
>
>
>> If you are very geeky, you can load fonts fronts from the stylesheet itself,
>> so you can show culmus fonts for Windows, as well as any other chosen font.
>>
>
> I understand that is not very portable, rather I would prefer to use
> the system's fonts, I just need to know what are good system fonts in
> Windows / IE.

I use Arial, I think this font looks good in Hebrew and English.  When
printing I use David, but on screen Arial is good.

Uri.


>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 21:46, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not a Linux question, but probably relevant for some people here.
>>>
>>> I'm working on a Hebrew website [1] and although it looks great in
>>> Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Linux, IE on Windows diplays terrible,
>>> terrible fonts. Which fonts should I specify in the CSS, ones that I
>>> can trust look decent and are installed on default Windows
>>> installations? I could probably just look at the code for Walla or
>>> TheMarker, but I figure that I would get a better answer here. Thanks.
>>>
>>> [1] http://tikun-mekarerim.co.il
>>
>>
>>
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