Suppose that you wish to use a font like Calibri, a sens-serif font with
small size of letters (with respect to font size), as the copy text
font. What would you list as fallback fonts, for use when Calibri is not
available?
The problem is that most commonly available sans-serif fonts have
different characteristics, looking much bigger in the same font size.
Designers often set font size to something small (absolutely, e.g. 12px,
or relatively, e.g. 85%). While this may look good to most people when
e.g. Arial is used, it makes Calibri far too small.
Any ideas? Just using font-family: Calibri, sans-serif (and leaving
font-size to 100%) should not be catastrophic, but can we do better? I
first thought of using fonts like Gautami (to cover almost all Windows
systems) but then realized that such fonts have very limited character
coverage (basically just Latin 1 and the particular script, like Telugu,
for which they have been designed).
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