JonTangerine / silo / typography / Web Fonts Test Suite

A companion reference to the articles, Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts and What Future for Web Typography & Screen Fonts? The bold, italic, bold italic and small caps variants may not appear in the typeface but have been included for display reference.

1. Core Web Fonts

   1. Andale Mono
   2. Arial
   3. Arial Black
   4. Comic Sans MS
   5. Courier New
   6. Georgia
   7. Impact
   8. Times New Roman
   9. Trebuchet MS
   10. Verdana

2. Other Font Famillies / Stacks

   1. Lucida Grande & Lucida Sans Unicode
   2. Baskerville & Palatino Linotype

1. Core Web Fonts

References

1. Core Web Fonts on Wikipedia
2. Microsoft Typography
3. Sourceforge core fonts download

2. Other Web Fonts — Cross Platform Font Famillies

Related

1. Pixels to Ems Conversion Table for CSS

Notes

Why “Ampadoje&” for sample text? I wanted a small range of glyphs to give a flavour of the faces with common vowels, ascenders, descenders and at least one capital and special character. Plus, trying to pronounce the word made me smile. I have it as “amp–a–doh–gee!”

Written on Oct 21, 2007.

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