Modern Font Stacks Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• How to choose colors ?

  For fonts: I rely on fonts that visitors already have on their machine, to make the app as fast to load as possible. For this I use Modern Font Stacks. Source: 10 months ago

• Mac and windows default fonts

  I like https://modernfontstacks.com/ – since fonts differ wildly from Windows to Mac to Android to Linux and what-not. It's a neat quick way to go for css font stacks where you aim at, say, System UI, Monospace, Rounded Sans, Handwritten or Slab Serif or whatever you're looking for and you get the best typeface chosen without any external fonts loading on any platform. Source: 11 months ago

• Stop Using Custom Web Fonts

  From the front page: https://modernfontstacks.com/ has aa bunch of nice font stacks that should work on most platforms. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Modern Font Stacks

  Https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks. —⁂— System UI: risky, it’s a trap, there’s basically no legitimate scenario for these semantics on the public web. See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658. (b) Courier New is unreasonably thin. Its 400 is more like a 250, and painful to read in many common configurations. Just never use it. (c) Cutive Mono apparently copied Courier New’s... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago