Ban Helvetica - Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better


By Garrick Van Buren

Good web design is about appropriateness - appropriate colors, layouts, actions. Now, there are dozens of ways to use more appropriate fonts and typefaces on your website.

SiFR, Cufon, CSS's @font-face (like my own Kernest), and a bunch more.

Let's explore the different methods and dig into the appropriateness of each method of adding a custom font to your website.


Participants


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Dane Messall
John Mindiola III
BenEdwards
EricCaron
DanMoriarty
Samir Nassar
Sarah German
Ali Karbassi
Pete Jones
David Simmer
MichaelEkstrand
Marcus Johnson
Shelley Sanders
Michael Janssen
Rick Cochrane
Joe Tower
Carl Martens


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Helvetica forever! Looks like we are rocking some Helvetica Neue on this very site. :)
-- LukeFrancl (2009-11-07 10:55:46)
Funny that the name of the session is Ban Helvetica, especially considering that Helvetica isn't considered a web safe font. Arial is (and is used on this site). Still sounds very cool though. I'll be there!
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