AppleNova Forums - View Single Post - font-family: Using Just "sans-serif"?

chucker · 2010-12-20, 16:26

Ah, now I understand.

You can't really rely on sans-serif defaulting to Helvetica on the Mac than you can on Helvetica being ugly in Windows (it's gonna look somewhat better in IE 9).

If you really want to ensure that it looks as you intended, supply the typeface yourself using @font-face.

chucker ‽ Join Date: May 2004 Location: near Bremen, Germany	2010-12-20, 16:26 Ah, now I understand. You can't really rely on sans-serif defaulting to Helvetica on the Mac than you can on Helvetica being ugly in Windows (it's gonna look somewhat better in IE 9). If you really want to ensure that it looks as you intended, supply the typeface yourself using @font-face.
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