No Century Gothic on Vista?

[cb2004]

Is it just me or does Vista not come with Century Gothic which I thought was a web safe font, therefore Microsoft has broke the web again?

[mountainpride]

I have Vista and I use century gothic, on my website- and on Word.

[Andrew Johnson]

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

[cb2004]

I see. So Century Gothic must be installed with Microsoft Apllications like Office and is not a standard font. This is a clean Vista install so that must explain it. No Century Gothic for me in the future.

[Apostropartheid]

Why not?
I use a clean install of an OEM disc of WinXP and that comes with Century Gothic. Macs also have it by default (my girlfriend has a MacBook or whatever name they come up with because they can't bear to say "laptop").

[Andrew Johnson]

Just because a few common examples use it doesn't make it a standard...

(._.)

[Apostropartheid]

There's nothing wrong with using a font that not everyone has. As long as you fall back and it still looks good.

[Andrew Johnson]

There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a poor practice.

[Apostropartheid]

Poor practice? We've been able to fall back on fonts since the dreaded HTML tag. It's not poor practice to make something more stylish for a bunch of users as long as the remainder also get a good experience. We do it for JavaScript and CSS. Why not fonts?

[Skyzyx]

There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a poor practice.

What do you think we do for Linux users? Of course we fallback for platforms with missing fonts.

[VIPStephan]

There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a poor practice.

That “poor practice” is called graceful degraration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation). Or, if you look at it from the other side: progressive enhancement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement).

[harbingerOTV]

Kudos Stephan,

This is the second post I've read tonight that states not necessarily mis-information but bad information none the less.


font-family: luftwaffe, perostrika, porcelain, "edwardian script", georgia, serif;


what's poor practice with that? Quite the opposite. Good practice is more like it.

If I want my site to display in a font I have because I think it's cool, so be it. If my viewer doesn't have it fine, I'll give them a multitude of options lastly falling back on their default font family.


That “poor practice” is called graceful degraration. Or, if you look at it from the other side: progressive enhancement.


exactly.