[CREATE] LGM webpage use proprietary font stack

[Jakub Jankiewicz]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:43:42 +0100
"a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi jakub,
> 
> > LGM website is using proprietary font stack for display pages:
> > 
> > body {
> >     font: 13px "Lucida Grande",Verdana,sans-serif;
> >     color: navy;
> >     line-height: 16px;
> > }
> > 
> > the owner of "Lucida Grande" is Apple and you can't even buy it
> > http://www.identifont.com/show?63U
> > and Verdana is used by Microsoft Windows and you can buy it
> > http://www.linotype.com/339955/Verdana-family.html
> 
> i understand your matter of using free fonts!
> 
> just some context information:
> 
> - the line above, does not mean that you should use lucida grande or
>   verdana, but that it will be used it if is avalaible. the result is
>   that it will use lucida grande on mac, verdana on windows and the
>   default sans-serif font on linux and other platforms.
>   i'm not the author of last year's css, but i guess that the reason
>   for this choice was to use the default sans font on the user
> computer.

Yes I know that, Just wanted to pointed out that it use those fonts.

> 
> - originally, the author of the layout used cantarell. i don't know
> why the font has been dropped for last year's web page. we can
> certainly reintroduce in this year's css, no problem!
>   should we use cantarell as the first choice?
> 

It could be that font. What about using only "sans-serif", It should
select default sans serif font on Mac and Windows too, but I'm not sure.

> ciao
> a.l.e
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