As requested by a reader of Make A Website that wants to know where to download web safe chinese fonts. I have now packaged them in a ZIP for download in case any more of you wants to use them for Chinese web projects. Click to download the fonts. No more download of fonts because …
Download Web Safe Simplified Chinese Fonts: Song Ti, Hei Ti, Youyuan, Lishu, MS Ya Hei Read More »
Browsing through websites after websites, you may wonder from time to time what a font is that’s used in the site design. While experience and necessary typographical knowledge is needed to make a sound guess, you can always upload a screenshot of image with some sample text of the font on to an online tool …
What is this font? An online tool to detect or guess font typography in images Read More »
Authored by Squidspot, this would make a great poster for fellow web designers and typography lovers!
As I’m a mainlander Chinese, I can only speak for those computers and browsers who live in central P.R.China. If you are making a design for or in Mandarin Chinese, especially Simplified Chinese, beside those common English web safe fonts such as Arial and Verdana shipped in MS Windows by default that 95% mainlander Chinese …
Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 are very interesting symbolic fonts shipped in all versions of MS Windows but not included in other OS and platforms such as Mac OS. All versions of Internet Explorer display them correctly in CSS typography but in other browsers you can’t expect them safe for text glyphs because …
The 10 web safe fonts, Arial, Impact, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Tahoma — ahhh, wait a minute, I can’t remember the last 2. Let me take a look at the 9 web safe fonts, ok, it’s Courier New and Arial Black. Tahoma isn’t included in the 9 browser safe …
Let’s use Lucida Grande for a change – 13 web safe fonts revisited Read More »
Update: There’s actually one more font you can use freely and safely across platforms, that is Tahoma. Update: Alright, there’s actually 3 more web safe fonts you can use. Check them out here.
