simple font stacks

[jancborchardt]

There should be generic simple font stacks for each serif and sans-serif to choose. I’d suggest:

font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif;
and
font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;

Also, for monospace:
Monaco, Ubuntu Mono, Menlo, Consolas, monospace;
and for geometric:
Futura, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif;
And for Didot/Bodoni-like:
"Bodoni MT", Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

Most of these are from the super nice article revised font stacks. Important is that it’s mainly focused on those which make sense for big headline text, we should not add typefaces which are specifically for long body text.

[tantaman]

So were you thinking that each of these stacks would be individually selectable as a "font"?

I.e., there would be 3 new font selections: monospace, geometric, and Didot each being backed by their appropriate stack.

[jancborchardt]

Yep. Each stack is one selection, the stack is just to account for typefaces not being available on different systems.

Thinking about it now I’m not sure if that’s the best way to go though, maybe we should just choose some really good typefaces from http://theleagueofmoveabletype.com, http://openfontlibrary.org and others (Open Sans as go-to sans for instance), also to make sure the presentation always looks the same on any computer you edit it with. And we would be able to put the typefaces in the repo so everyone has them and we don’t rely on Google.

Sounds good? I’d then collect some 7–9 great freely licensed typefaces.