#Add typography fonts to responsive site designer windows
Some of the fonts were operating system specific and would only work on either Windows or Macintosh, so in cases like this you could include a list of fonts that you would like to use and the Operating System would use the first available font it recognised/had available. ± Worked on Mac/Windows but not on Linux. Verdana± Georgia± Comic Sans MS± Trebuchet MS± Arial Black± Impact± There were a few others, but these were not as strongly supported across all operating systems. The original set of Web Safe fonts that you could choose from included:Īrial Helvetica Times Times New Roman Palatino Garamond Bookman Avant Garde Courier Courier New It provided designers a way to make the content that was being produced on the web look a lot better, and therefore the content became more readable and easier to digest.Īt this point CSS gave designers (or Web Masters as the one person who did everything for your website was called) the ability to control the font-face that was chosen for the site, but the choices were limited. The arrival of CSS When CSS arrived it was kind of a big thing.
The other reason they didn’t have to worry about all of those things was simply because CSS wasn’t a thing at that stage and there was no real control over the visual layout other than the semantic markup you could give the content (h1-h6, p, a, i, b tags). The didn’t need to worry about line-height, padding, margins, typographical hierarchy or anything else because they just created the frigging internet OMG haven't they done enough! The didn’t need to worry about line lengths because the screens were all so small there was no risk of a line running on for too long. Those, fairly major, things aside the web page that was produced was made up from a couple of paragraphs with black text on a white background with some blue underlined links. Okay, so I’m ignoring the enormous technical effort that went into creating the network and the rendering engine to produce the page in its most simplest form, and ignoring all of the painstaking research to set up the fundamental structure and ruleset of the most widely used language in the world - HTML. A bit of background When the first web page was published back in 1996 it was a fairly straightforward affair.
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