Typo matters - and the people at Vidget are fully aware of that simple (sometimes forgotten) fact. As a designer and xhtml developer its always good to know which typefaces are installed by default on everyone’s computer.

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Instead of using safe fonts that are installed on all OS’s - CSS perfectly gives us the ability to switch between fonts when one’s not installed. Most of the people are familiar with font-stacks, but only few fully use/implement them.

Here’s a quick example:

h1
{
	font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Trebuchet MS", serif;
}

In this example; we use Helvetica Neue as primary font (default on mac), people that don’t have Helvetica Neue installed will get Arial instead. Simple & smooth. Mind the fact the we’re using Helvetica Neue for a title and not our complete body text.


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