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Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word font-stack.
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You're missing the double quote in front of Hoefler Text in the Garamond font-stack you have provided towards the bottom.
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ILT is serious about using Cambria as a primary choice, then the revised font-stack should be: baskerville, palatino, 'palatino linotype', georgia, serif;
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Many of Amrinder's suggestions appear based upon an idea that fonts in a font-stack should be placed in the inverse order of the likelihood of the font being available.
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We only need to see if this font-stack works well in the context (heading, para) we are using.
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And one that removes much of the clever flexibility that the font-stack concept introduced, for no apparent gain.
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Now if ILT is serious about using Cambria as a primary choice, then the revised font-stack should be: Cambria, Georgia, serif;
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So, I've divided the basic font-stack into two separate groups that can be used while keeping Hoefler Text at the driver seat.
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One thing to take into consideration when writing a font-stack is the respective aspect-ratio (x-height) of fonts.
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Times New Roman (93. 62% on Mac, 98. 60% on Windows) to his font-stack and tested in Firefox on Mac so as to find the best possible choices.
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Lucida Sans Unicode (with 98. 25% share) and Lucida Sans (with 77. 78% share) can be used, but they are missing (intentionally or unintentionally) in Facebook's font-stack.
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