To get around this, any page-designer worth her salt will specify several fonts, in decreasing order of preference, in her style sheet. See, for example, the comparisons of OS's cursive fonts at the page linked in the previous paragraph. Computers with differing operating systems will, typically, have different sets of fonts installed as standard. In order for you to read a web-page in the font which the author has specified in the style sheet (a document, usually separate from the web-page, which specifies the various styles the author wishes to apply to the page), that font has to be installed on your computer.
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(That's before the installation of any office software or other such programs which almost certainly install it, along with many other fonts additional to those shipped with the OS.) Which brings us neatly to what I mean by "web-safe." On a Mac, it's a 95.7% chance, and on Linux, 68.4%.
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Well, I say "one hundred percent." If you're reading this on Windows there is, according to this list, a 99.6% chance that you've just read the name of The Font Which Should Ne'er Be Seen in the relevant type-face. And at this point, the only one I can name, and be just-about one hundred percent certain that you will be able to take a look at as an example is the dreaded Comic Sans MS. Erm, nope!īut before we go any further, let's just define, for the uninitiated, what the hell my friend's horribly geeky-looking question meant.Ī cursive font is, quite simply, a font which looks like handwriting. Which should've been an easy ask, right? Couple o' minutes with Google, mail 'em a link or two, to pages displaying handy lists of same job done.
Quite a while ago, a friend asked me if I could point them to a list of web-safe cursive fonts.
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