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Verdana is not really 'Web Safe' #271

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dkeu opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 3 comments
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Verdana is not really 'Web Safe' #271

dkeu opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 3 comments

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@dkeu
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dkeu commented Feb 2, 2024

I really like Verdana as a font, but it is no longer web safe. There are several font stacks that can be called web safe, but Verdana causes problems here and there.

A system stack would be possible:
ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;

Or a pure sans-serif stack:
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Arial Nova', Arial, Roboto, Inter, 'Nimbus Sans', sans-serif;

In principle, Verdana becomes Roboto on Android, but then looks noticeably different than on all other platforms.

All in all, Verdana is therefore not a good choice because it does not look the same across all systems.

@HermanMartinus
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Interesting. Thanks for bringing this up, I'll investigate it.

@Yinchie
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Yinchie commented Feb 20, 2024

A more complete system font stack.
system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

@pimoore
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pimoore commented Feb 21, 2024

A great reference and configuration for system fonts is Modern Font Stacks, which specifically addresses options ranging across different OSes, including fallbacks.

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