Q: How do I get my font to appear consistently?
A: If you want your typeface to appear constant throughout your pages, you should use a widely-installed typeface. In the thread
consistent font I outlined this as a list of fairly safe typefaces:
Quote:
Very Safe:- Times New Roman
- Arial
- Courier
Almost as Safe:- Georgia
- Verdana
- Courier New
Still safe enough:
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There's many a statistic site around with details on installed fonts,
VisiBone is quite a good one.
Some people want their font sizes to remain constant. That's fine, as long as the user can still scale them. Remember: the web is a universal medium, and we must design with user-centricity in our minds. What if someone with poor eyesite visits your site? They should be able to scale the text in order to be able to read it (this is REGARDLESS of your target audience,
anyone should be able to visit your site and read your text; likewise you can't predict everyone in your target audience will have good eyesight). Therefore, it's also important that your design doesn't 'break' once the user resizes the text (obviously beyond around 300-400% it will eventually break, but that's acceptable).
The easiest way to set a typeface for your entire site is using CSS:
Code:
html, body { font-family: arial /*for example*/ }