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| body { | |
| font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; | |
| } |
body {font-family: fantasy}
BAM.
delete me
This is what I’ve been using: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", "LucidaGrande", "Lucida Sans", sans-serif.
"LucidaGrande" is something a friend of mine told me to include and I’m not really sure why.
(I’d like to point out that "Arial", sans-serif is really redundant, if you think about it.)
@miketaylr I had no idea about that fantasy was a valid family keyword. Just to check, it renders as Papyrus on a Mac, and Times New Roman on Windows.
@desandro. Times New Roman? That's no fantasy I want part of.
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Lucida Sans is a great screen font that holds up well at small sizes, but only certain families have proper bold and italic variants. This font stack is designed to provide the variants when available, and best legibility across OS's.
Lucida Sans comes with Office for Mac. Lucida Sans Regular comes with Office 2007 for Windows. Both have bold and italic variants. Then Lucida Grande (has bold) for Mac users w/ no Office, or Lucida Sans Unicode (which has neither bold, nor italic) for Windows users w/ no Office. Lucida Sans Unicode has no bold or italic.
@dandrinkard advises Lucida Sans Unicode displays best on Windows with ClearType, and should be put ahead of Lucida Grande.