Font Stacks is a Sass and Compass font-family library of common web-friendly font stacks.
gem install font-stacks- Add
require 'font-stacks'in Compass'sconfig.rbfile - Then
@import font-stacks
The usage is simple. Here are two examples:
// Long-form
.foo {
font-family: font-family("Helvetica Neue");
}
// Shorthand
.foo {
font-family: ff("Helvetica Neue");
}
// Resulting CSS
.foo {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Liberation Sans", FreeSans, sans-serif;
}
// Long-form
.foo {
@include font-family("Helvetica Neue");
}
// Shorthand
.foo {
@include ff("Helvetica Neue");
}
// Resulting CSS
.foo {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Liberation Sans", FreeSans, sans-serif;
}
As you can see, you simply pass the name of the font-stack to the font-family() function or its shorthand counterpart ff(), or to the font-family() mixin or its shorthand counterpart ff(). Simple.
If you'd like to set the default font-family, override the monospace font-family or set the default sans-serif or serif fonts, I have provided a few variables you can set.
By default, $default-sans-serif is set to "Helvetica".
$default-sans-serif: "Helvetica"
You can set this variable to another available font, such as "Verdana". Here's an example:
$default-sans-serif: "Verdana"
Then you can simply pass "sans-serif" to the font-family() function or mixin to use your default sans-serif font stack.
.foo {
+font-family(sans-serif)
}
By default, $default-serif is set to "Georgia".
$default-serif: "Georgia"
You can set this variable to another available font, such as "Times". Here's an example:
$default-serif: "Times"
Then you can simply pass "serif" to the font-family() function or mixin to use your default serif font stack.
.foo {
+font-family(serif)
}
The monospace font stack hasn't gotten as much thought or love yet, but by default, the monospace font stack is set to:
"DejaVu Sans Mono", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace
If you'd like to override this, set $default-monospace to the stack you'd prefer. For example:
$default-monospace: "Anonymous Pro", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace
You continue to pass "monospace" to the font-family() function or mixin to use your default monospace font stack.
.foo {
+font-family(monospace)
}
By default $default-font-family is set to $default-sans-serif. This needs to have a value to always return a font stack, even if you mis-spell or something isn't right. I'd rather return your default instead of nothing.
$default-font-family: $default-sans-serif
Baskerville, (88.60% on Mac, 49.10% on Windows)
Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif
Big Caslon, (85.10% on Mac)
"Big Caslon", "Book Antiqua", "Palatino Linotype", Georgia, serif
Bodoni MT, (47.89% on Windows)
"Bodoni MT", Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif
Book Antiqua, (86.09% on Mac)
"Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif
Cambria, (54.51% on Windows)
Cambria, Georgia, serif
Constantia, (53.81% on Windows)
Constantia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif
Didot, (87.72% on Mac)
Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif
Garamond, (23.84% on Mac, 86.24% on Windows)
Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif
Goudy Old Style, (51.30% on Windows)
"Goudy Old Style", Garamond, "Big Caslon", "Times New Roman", serif
Hoefler Text, (88.70% on Mac, 1.16% on Windows)
"Hoefler Text", "Baskerville Old Face", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif
Lucida Bright, (64.90% on Mac, 33.84% on Windows, huge x-height)
"Lucida Bright", Georgia, serif
Palatino, (79.71% on Mac, 98.04% on Windows)
Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", "Book Antiqua", Georgia, serif
Times New Roman ~ Times, (100% on Mac, 100% on Windows)
"Times New Roman", Times, serif
Calibri, (54.76% on Windows)
Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Optima, Arial, sans-serif
Candara, (54.31% on Windows)
Candara, Calibri, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Optima, Arial, sans-serif
Franklin Gothic Medium, (97.89% on Windows)
"Franklin Gothic Medium", Arial, sans-serif
Futura, (91.01% on Mac)
Futura, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif
Geneva, (98.84% on Mac)
Geneva, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif
Gill Sans, (91.52% on Mac, 51.74% on Windows)
"Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", Calibri, sans-serif
Helvetica Neue ~ Helvetica, (94.74% on Mac)
"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Liberation Sans", FreeSans, sans-serif
Lucida Grande, (99.13% on Mac, 98.25% on Windows)
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif
Optima, (90.14% on Mac)
Optima, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif
Segoe, (45.04% on Windows)
Segoe, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif
Tahoma, (99.30% on Windows)
Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif
Trebuchet MS, (94.20% on Mac, 99% on Windows)
"Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif
Verdana, (96.81% on Mac, 99.40% on Windows)
Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
Default Monospace font stack. Override by setting $default-monospace.
"DejaVu Sans Mono", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace
Special thanks to Amrinder Sandhu for his research on web font stacks and article Revised Font Stacks. The refactor from this version as well as the additional support of the various web fonts is largely based on, and because of, his work.
Additional special thanks to my bud Nathan Smith for being an awesome sounding board and for helping me make some decisions that made this project all the more better. Thanks bro!
Copyright (c) 2011 Adam Stacoviak
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