OT: web fonts

[Dotan Cohen]

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.

> 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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