But it would never work well when you make it small. In my site when I am using 'arial.' as base font then → html character is rendering well in all browsers but when using 'Helvetica.' then its not displaying properly in google chrome, Why?Īs someone said before, the reason for the 'sans-serif' fonts, is almost as old as the web itself.įirst of all, the 'serif' fonts (times new roman, georgia, every font with those little decorations at the end of every character ending, etc.) works well in printings, becasue of the size, the space, the junctions between characters, etc. So I want to ask that why Helvetica is recommended, and in the same post one of answers says 'If you want Helvetica, you either have to get a Mac' So is the MAC PC's are the only reason to use this so that it will look good in MAC only? Then I SO'd and found a post Is Helvetica a browser base font? I googled on this, but nowhere seen anything much convincing to me. One of my friend told me 'Use font family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif in your website', when I asked him why then 'blank' he don't know, some usability expert in his company told him this thing.īut when I tried helvetica, arial, sans-serif then I noticed that I bold and un-bold is not working properly with this font whereas I use arial, helvetica, sans-serif this then its working fine.

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