Every album is different. Why should you use the same typeface for all? With version 3.3.0 came the improved font stacks to Turtle, and with 3.3.1 you can even choose a unique headline font for page titles. I will explain how these fonts work in your albums.
Web browsers for long time could only use the fonts found on the visitor’s PC. Therefore web designers were limited to some 10 fonts that were common on the different OS’s – you possibly seen them zillion times – like Arial, Verdana, Times, and such. Then came CSS3 with its custom font import possibilities. CSS3 is unfortunately not supported by all browsers on the market today – guess which – IE7 and 8. They require their own special font format. There is a solution exists to fix these bad guys, but I did not want to bother with supporting old browsers, and adding heavy javascript libraries to Turtle. In these browsers the headline fonts will simply fall back to the default base font.
Base Font families
These fonts come from the visitor’s PC. If the browser can’t find the designated font, it will try to find a similar (the next in the “font stack”). Some 27 fonts are available as global (base) fonts. This font selection will be valid for the whole album, that is for every text. (Besides the headline, see later). Therefore it is essential to use a font that’s available on the visitor’s PC, in order the page loaded as quickly as can. Here is the list:
Arial
Baskerville
Calibri
Cambria
Century Gothic
Comic Sans
Consolas
Constantia
Copperplate
Courier New
Franklin Gothic
Futura
Garamond
Geneva
Gill Sans
Goudy Old Style
Helvetica Neue
Hoefler Text
Impact
Lucida Bright
Lucida Sans
Palatino
Segoe
Tahoma
Times
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Headline font
For the headline (page title) you can choose to keep with the base font or use another one. You can even use web fonts that come from Google Web Fonts. These fonts are open source so you can use them in any project: private or commercial. Please note, using a web font can make the page load a bit slower. Also these fonts are not available on Internet Explorer 7 and 8 (will fall back to the base font). Internet Explorer 9 will not display web fonts in local view due to security restrictions, but will be fine when uploaded. Here are the fonts you can use (above the base fonts):
Abril Fatface
Alex Brush
Amaranth
Amatic SC
Cantata One
Cookie
Dancing Script
Dosis
Dynalight
Emilys Candy
Euphoria Script
Fridericka the Great
Geo
Germania One
Great Vibes
Gruppo
IM Fell English
Indie Flower
La Belle Aurore
Lobster
Loved by the King
Maiden Orange
Mountains of Christmas
Oswald
Poiret One
Princess Sofia
PT Mono
Shadows Into Light
Special Elite
Raleway
Rochester
Squada One
Ubuntu Condensed
Yanone Kaffeesatz
I hope you will find the one that match best your album.
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