web-safe fonts & characters 2014

[Robert Lauriston]

I'm talking mainly about web help, which is not necessarily hosted on
a web server, often it's installed locally. Are any of the help
authoring tools embedding fonts in their web help? I haven't seen that
and can't find any examples by Googling.

I'm currently using Confluence and it doesn't support web fonts. I
could theoretically kludge that, but the tool chain I'm using to
generate web help from Confluence would not pick that up.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Sweet, Gregory (HEALTH)
<gregory.sweet at health.ny.gov> wrote:
> I doubt you will find one. CSS3 moved away from web-safe to actual web fonts. The font you want to use is included with your website or referenced from a cdn like https://www.google.com/fonts
>
> Some designers feel that you should always serve your own font files since you can trim out the characters you don't need and serve just the subset you do. Also avoids an external call to the cdn. It makes for a lighter, faster page helping to achieve that all so important "golden second".
>
> Frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap have  abandoned the classic icon gif in favor of windings style fonts because they weigh less, load faster, and scale up and down with ease and clarity, see: http://getbootstrap.com/components/.
>
> Cheers!
> Greg
>
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>> Has anyone seen an authoritative reference for this?
>>
>> If I'm not writing man pages or working with some legacy CMS or help
>> authoring tool, I use curved quotes, em and en dashes, and ellipses, but I
>> can't cite any authority for doing so.
>>
>> I've yet to succeed in finding a web-safe monofont with a slashed or dotted
>> zero.