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Sites with information on type fonts

Typography is one of the most important element's of a web site's design. Text can be one of the most dynamic elemnts in terms of adjustments in the flow and propensity to flow. Presentation, positioning and the use of white-space can heavily impact usability.

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  • Apaddedcell.com - Safe web fonts

    Fonts that are most safe, those that usually work cross-platform and fonts that work on Windows and MacOS but not Unix. Includes a table of fonts commonly installed by OS applications. Ampsoft.net has a quick look-up table and browser shots.

  • Webspaceworks.com - font usage survey

    Fonts for web design: a comparison of cross-platform dependability. A table of the usage of 31 fonts on Windows, Mac & Linux platforms. The frequency with which these fonts were found in each operating system was obtained from two online font surveys.

  • Codestyle.org - font survey

    The most common reported fonts on the Windows platform from the Code Style Windows font survey.

  • Wpdfd.com - Web type

    A guide to using fonts in web pages.

  • 24ways.org - Font matrix

    A matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.

  • Alistapart.com - How to size text in css

    Reconciles the designer's requirement for accuracy with the user's need to resize text on demand thatvworks across browsers and platforms. They set body line height and elements size in a fraction of 1em.

  • Maratz.com - Type tester

    Compare how your choose font will look in different browsers. Thenoodleincident.com - Text sizing gives Screen shots for different appearance of fonts in different browsers. The Fonttester is a tool ot view different fonts in a choice of styles.

  • Wpdfd.com - Web type

    A guide to using fonts in web pages.

  • Alistapart.com - Dynamic Text Replacement

    Generate accessible image-headings using any font we like. And we don't have to change the structure of our HTML or CSS at all - using JavaScript and PHP.

  • Alistapart.com - Font resizing

    Detect your visitors' initial font size setting and find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size. Create a set of stylesheets that adapt your pages to the users' chosen font sizes, preventing overlapping elements and other usability and design disasters. And more...

  • Mikeindustries.com - sifr

    Scalable Inman Flash Replacement - 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. Fontsmack.com is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts.