Hi, I am redesigning my website. I am thinking about to use new microsoft segoe ui or calibri fonts. Should I use them. Official Windows Vista Site uses Segoe Ui font. Should I too use that font. Calibri is my fevorite. But on the matter of font-family Calibri does not fits with Arial, Verdana. Is SegoeUI became common?
Use any font you like, but understand that any system without your preferred font will fail through to your second or third choice, etc., or to the user's default choice. My Vista install in VBox has both font faces that you mentioned. My Linux (main work station) doesn't, nor does an older Windows box. To my un-trained eye, the "Segoe UI" is not significantly different from arial, the first fail-over. "Calibri" has a higher aspect ratio, ex ÷ em, more reminiscent of "Tahoma". MSFT, not surprisingly, has a syntax error in their css. body { /*base.css (line 14)*/ font-family:Segoe UI,Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; … } Code (markup): The Segoe UI should be quoted, thus body { font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; … } Code (markup): See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#propdef-font-family and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...rofile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en cheers, gary
Personally I have never heard of that font.... so I wouldn't use it just because of that... But as kk5st said, use whatever font you like as long as you define second, third etc options... the last font option should be serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive or fantasy.