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GHFigs on Feb 21, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Fonts Are Websafe in 2009?

It should be noted that putting Helvetica after Arial in your stylesheet is self-defeating if your aim is to display Helvetica on Macs but Arial on Windows. Macs ship with Arial, so such declarations mean Helvetica will never be used.

sc on Feb 21, 2009 [–]

Historically, Arial rendered better on Windows than Helvetica, so to offer Macs a form of Helvetica over Arial, you'll generally see:

  font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

hboon on Feb 21, 2009 | [–]

Yes, and GHFigs is pointing out that the article said:

  font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

which is self-defeating.

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