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Web Safe Alternative to Myriad Pro Font?
Is there any font that I can use in my font stack that is more or less similar to Myriad Pro and web safe?
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What is the effect of ligatures in web, regarding SEO
All designers love ligatures but vanilla web typography just sucks. I heard of smartypants that solves many of thoses issues, bringing sexy quotes, gorgeous ampersands and all. It's just perfect, ...
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PNG vs GIF for 1 bit transparency
Is there any reason for using GIF instead of PNG when the image requires only 1 bit transparency (either on or off) and of course no animation is required?
thanks
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free 'Helvetica Neue' alternative
Does anyone know any other fonts similar to Helvetica Neue (free for commercial use)? I'm working on a big website project where 'Helvetica Neue' is used heavily. I need a font that looks almost the ...
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How can I make my photoshop fonts appear like they do on the web?
Do I really have to design everything in photoshop with anti-aliasing set to "none"??? I'm sure there is a better way.
I'd like to have a setting so that when picking a basic web-safe (such as ...
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What are the good and free alternative to Helvetica when use as web font? [duplicate]
Sans-serif typeface is usually in web, so what are the free/open/cross-platform choices that can replace Helvetica?
By replacing Helvetica I mean are there any font which is better than Helvetica for ...
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Illustrator CS6 'Save for Web' doesn't save the image as expected
I have an image 8x8 pixels as below; this is the image as I see in Adobe Illustrator CS6:
Each gray shade in upper left and lower right corners is 4x2 pixels. I would like to save this image as I ...
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What is the state of cross platform web safe fonts in 2011?
You can see the traditional cross platform system fonts like Arial and these , but in 2011 with Leopard/Lion and Vista/7, surely there are a load more fonts we can use reliably?
Thanks!
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Colors appear differently on webpage when saving in sRGB
I've made a webpage with an image next to text, set as the same color I thought I had used for the image. However when I looked at the webpage on Safari (on Mac) I noticed that the actual color of the ...
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Save for Web in Photoshop with custom DPI
I am writing user documentation using DITA which allows me to easily generate deliverables in PDF, CHM and web formats. The images need to be saved with a DPI of 110 so that they are displayed ...
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Looking for a good, video game retro (pixel-like) web safe font
Does anyone know of a good pixel-like, retro video game font that is web-safe? I am having trouble finding one.
Thanks
