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I often see the websites using font "Helvetica Neue". Is this font safe to use, like eg. Arial? Or do the browsers have trouble rendering it or not many machines have this font? Thanks.
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To use this font on all devices, use a @font-face declaration in your CSS to link to it on your domain if you wish to use it. Just mind the copyright if you do. Make sure the licence you pay for includes web embedding.
The browser will attempt to match each font name with any installed fonts on the user's machine (in the order they have been listed). In your example "HelveticaNeue-Light" will be tried first, if this font variant is unavailable the browser will try "Helvetica Neue Light" and finally "Helvetica Neue" .
It's a default font on Macs, but rare on PCs. Since it's not technically web-safe, some people may have it and some people may not. If you want to use a font like that, without using @font-face, you may want to write it out several different ways because it might not work the same for everyone.
I like using a font stack that touches on all bases like this:
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; This recommended font-family stack is further described in this CSS-Tricks snippet Better Helvetica which uses a font-weight: 300; as well.
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This font is not standard on all devices. It is installed by default on some Macs, but rarely on PCs and mobile devices.
To use this font on all devices, use a @font-face declaration in your CSS to link to it on your domain if you wish to use it.
@font-face { font-family: Delicious; src: url('Delicious-Roman.otf'); } @font-face { font-family: Delicious; font-weight: bold; src: url('Delicious-Bold.otf'); } Taken from css3.info
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