Why generic names like "Sans" & "Serif"?
Jorge Fábregas
jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Sun May 18 14:22:22 UTC 2008
On Sunday 18 May 2008 04:58:20 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> They're not a simple alias, they can be a patchwork of fonts, and the
> composition of the patchwork for the same rules depends on the actual
> font files present on disk.
Thanks Nicolas for the help and links. One last question related to this... I
asked this question on the fedora-list a couple of months ago but there
wasn't a straight answer (I guess it's not possible) but I ask it here to see
if any of you know a way.
Is there a way to know the final rendered font when viewing a page on Firefox?
I installed the "Font Finder" extension and basically I'll highlight some
text and it will give me the requested font for that section. Something like:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif
Can I assume that the final rendered font (in Firefox) is the same I'll get
when I do:
fc-match verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif
??? It seems to be that way (having "sans-serif" for sans-serif on my Firefox
preferences...) but if I specify a particular typeface for "sans-serif" in
Firefox...it will not evaluate 'verdana, arial & helvetica"and it will jump
straight to the specific font I specified in "sans-serif".
Thanks,
Jorge
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