Why do we need to download special fonts? The original site didn't. I'm
guessing that to get back to the original, we'd just remove
that fonts.googleapis.com line, and perhaps add a
body{font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;}
to the style section.
miles
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> From: zoe slattery <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:25 PM
>Subject: Re: Fonts on "new" site
>
>Hi
>> well on all three "common" platforms? Windows, Mac and Linux? I know
>> the
>> site used to look ok on Linux, so it must be possible :). [Fwiw, the
>> font on my Linux looks tiny, are very blurry, and generally just
>> doesn't
>> look good].
>The font selection is like this:
>
>font-family: "Droid Serif", Georgia, serif; for the serif fonts, and:
>"M+2pheavy","Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; for sans-serif.
>
>The Droid comes from <link
>href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif:regular,italic,bold";
>rel="stylesheet"> in index.html (or should anyway) and looking at Igor's
>sample below that's the one that looks worst. Hmm - maybe not working as I
>thought.
>
>I admit that I tested on FF (Mac), IE(7,8,9), Android and probably iPhone but
>did not look at Opera on Linux. Happily I installed Ubuntu on something
>earlier this week so now I can.
>
>> I think it looks fairly well on my ubuntu, but I have installed
>> ALL THE FONTS.
>>
>> ttf-mscorefonts-installer<< This one, among others.
>> Here's how it looks for me (in Opera):
>>
>> http://blag.esotericsystems.at/igor/sees/ats-on-linux
>Well - might be my eyes or half a bottle of wine but that looks blurry to me
>:-/ I will look at it over Christmas sometime - I know there are other things
>to fix on the downloads pages and with the headers. Can't see why Opera/Linux
>would be bad though...
>
>Z
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -- Leif
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