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If you are unable to read some Unicode characters in your browser, it may be because your system is not properly configured. Here are some basic instructions for doing that. There are two basic steps:

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  • Install fonts that cover the characters you need
  • Configure your browser to use them.

Fonts

There are few full Unicode fonts for fixed-width text. Luckily, there is also little web content that requires such fonts! The following sections describe how to get fonts for different platforms: you can also find other fonts in the Unicode resources at Fonts. Ideally, you will install fonts that are tuned for the scripts that you particularly need, then also install one or more Unicode fonts with large coverage as a backup, such as Code2000 or Microsoft Arial Unicode. The Last Resort Font is available as 'last resort' backup. It contains a collection of glyphs for use when no other font is available for displaying a particular Unicode character.

Windows

For Windows XP, getting additional languages installed is as follows:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options and Language Options.

In the Languages tab, check the Supplemental language support option(s) you want. Setting both options will install all optional fonts. This adds fonts as well as system support for these languages.

Full fonts:

If you have Microsoft Office 2000 and newer versions, you can get the Arial Unicode MS font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose Add or Remove Features. Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.

To set your tooltip font to be able to display Unicode characters:

Right click on the desktop, pick Properties>Appearance>Advanced>Item: ToolTip, then set the font to Arial Unicode MS or other large font.

Macintosh

On OS X, all the major Web browsers fully support Unicode, as do most applications. No special software needs to be installed for any Unicode script.

The Font Book application can be used to examine installed fonts and install new ones. To install a font, double-click on the font's icon. This will launch Font Book, which will show a preview of the font and give you the option to install it.

To make keyboards for different languages available, launch System Preferences and load the Language & Text preference pane. (On older systems, this is called the International preference pane.) Select the Input Sources tab. This will show a list of all available keyboards and input methods. Select the ones you want to be able to use. If you have the Input menu shown in the menu bar, you can switch keyboards and input methods by using the menu, or you can use the keyboard shortcuts you define in the Keyboard preference pane.

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Unix

A range of quite comprehensive fixed-width Unicode on-screen pixel fonts for X11/Unix users can be downloaded from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
or directly as http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
Check the included README file for detailed installation instructions.

An earlier version of these fonts is already automatically installed when you use the XFree86 4.0 X server, which is the one commonly used under Linux.

The Firefox web browser can make use of these fonts directly. Just select the '-misc-fixed-iso10646-1' font for the 'Unicode' category in the 'Edit Preferences Fonts' setup menu.

Browsers

You should make sure that you are using the most recent version of whatever browser you use, and have installed the fonts you want. The following then describes how to configure browsers for different fonts.

Internet Explorer

IE is fairly smart about picking tuned fonts for different characters. To set your font as the default for a given block of characters, choose Tools > Internet Options > Fonts, then select the fonts.

Monospace Fonts:

IE uses Web page font to mean variable-width, and Plain text font to mean fixed width. Unfortunately, IE will not let you pick a variable-width font in the Plain text font box. That means in practice that you simply can't view most Unicode characters in fixed-width.

Firefox

You will need to specify which fonts to use for which encodings. To set your font as the default for a given block of characters, choose Edit > Preferences > Fonts. Then for each encoding you are likely to use, pick the appropriate fonts for the Variable Width and Fixed Width fonts. It is particularly important to set default fonts for Unicode.

Monospace Fonts:

Firefox lets you select any font for fixed-width content. This allows you to use a variable-width font in the Fixed Width box. While you lose the alignment of the characters, at least you can read the content.

Java

To allow Java applets (and/or programs) to draw Unicode characters in the fonts you have available, you will need to hand-edit the font configuration files that the Java runtime uses. Because you may have several Java runtimes installed on your machine (for different browsers, development environments, etc.), you may need to do this multiple times.

The process is described in Java's documentation and depends on the version:

  • Java 5: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/fontconfig.html
  • Java 6: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/fontconfig.html

Further Information

The following link from Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources also offers helpful information on specific topics.

For setting up browsers on different operating systems for Multilingual and Unicode Support: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/browsers.html

Arial and Helvetica are the default font stack for most browsers and for most of the websites. That's bad, really really bad. Arial and Helvetica suck on web and for paragraphs of text - they are unreadable (as compared to many other typefaces created specifically for web). And Helvetica looks ugly without proper kerning and Arial is just an ugly bastard son of Helvetica.

Some people actually have a reason to use them but most use it mindlessly - just because everyone else does. Often, no thought is given to design of the site, let alone typography.

Let me expand on merits and demerits of these defaults:

Helvetica

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Films have been made and songs are sung in name of Helvetica. And all that is well-deserved! Helvetica is one of the best typefaces ever created and is still as relevant as it was when it was created.

But it is a very bad choice for web - especially when you have a paragraphs / chunks of text to typeset. It might work with headlines. Helvetica almost always requires custom kerning to bring out the best. That's something that you cannot do for every word you ever wrote on web.

Here is a comparison between Helvetica and Lucida Grande (My favorite typeface). Just keep reading and you will see the difference.

Helvetica is great. It's brilliant for print world, brand identities and maybe even headlines. I love it for that purpose. In fact, most of the brand identities I've created are typeset in Helvetica. But please do us a favour, don't use it on the web.

Helvetica Neue was recreated for web. It is much better than bare Helvetica; but again it is not as great as many other typefaces crafted for web. And availability is a big problem on Windows.

Arial

Arial is notorious amoung designers as Microsoft's bastard son (rip-off) of Helvetica. It's just a bad copy of Helvetica - a really bad one. It's just ugly.

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That's Lucida Grande vs. Helvetica vs. Arial.

But there are sites and designers who have managed to make even Arial work for them. But same amount of effort will yield much better results in other typefaces.

Some popular sites that use Arial and Helvetica nicely:

GitHub uses Helvetica; but on most Windows machines it defaults to Arial and they pull it off very nicely:

Except some parts which can be much better with a different typeface:

Gmail also does a great job of typesetting in Arial:

So Why do People Use Them?

  • Prevalent reason is ignorance. People just don't care/know about design - let alone typography.
  • Second reason, which makes most sense, is availability[1]. Arial is available almost everywhere (~99% Macs and Windows machines have it).
  • Safe bet and cross-platform compatibility - Arial was created in image of Helvetica. They are very much same in terms of x-height and other measurements. So they are the safest thing to do! Different x-height can break your layout! It's easy to work with defaults no matter how bad they are.
  • They like it. (Gulp!) Well however much I'd like to say 'to each; his own' - still there are good things from mad. Justin Bieber can never be compared to Tony Bennett - he is just not that good technically no matter what popular taste is. Arial is shit and Helvetica hardly works as good on web.

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If you're dropping IE6/7/8 support than you're anyway ignoring a much bigger market than you'd ignore if you ditched Arial. And if you're betting on Helvetica - you're already in peril with availability issues.

Alternatives: Meet more web-safe fonts

Unfortunately, Windows is more popular (household) Operating System than MacOS or *nix based systems. So Microsoft rules the font-availability game. But fortunately they've done a decent job there. Technically, these fonts were made for web and have amazing readability. Here are some:

Verdana

Released in 1996, it is available on 99.10% of Macs, 99.84% of Windows Machine and 67.91% of Linux Machines. It was was bundled with MS Office, Windows and IE. In fact all Mac OSX versions after 10.4 had it.

Many iPad book/reading apps use Verdana.

Poplar site Hacker News uses Verdana, what if they used Arial?

Tahoma

Originally bundled with Windows 95 (God! Remember those days?) it was part of MS Office for many later versions and part of Mac OSX from Leopard onwards.

It is available on 91.71% Macs and 99.9% Windows Machines.

Trebuchet MS

This brilliant typeface was originally released with Windows 2000 and IE4. Later became part of Mac OSX and iOS. It is available on 97.12% Macs and 99.67% Windows machines.

More Options

Arial

If your target segment have MS Office installed, then you have a wider range of typefaces available: Sego UI, Calibri etc.

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And if you're you know a thing or two about typography then you can use more OS specific typefacess with fall-backs on simillar x-height and character typefaces. Eg: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, sans-serif.

Serifs

Though with rise of high pixel density screens, serifs are taking a back seat; but the default here sucks as well. A typeface at par with Arial in it's hideousness - Times New Roman.

Just use Georgia. It is one of the most beautiful and readable typefaces ever created. 97.48% Macs and 99.4% Windows machines have it. Seriously, Georgia is fucking amazing.

Fallback?

So what do you use as fallbacks to these typefaces? Well nothing. Plain sans-serif or serif because these fonts are fall-back in age of @font-face sorcery.

The Embedded Font Trends

With rise of CSS3 and @font-face, most people are jumping forward to better typefaces. So it's a great idea to go ahead and take a typeface which is suited best for your need.

There are some brilliant typefaces out there: Open Sans, Proxima Nova, Mueso Sans, Source Sans Pro, Ubuntu, Lato, Droid Sans, Droid Serif etc.

More Tips on Readability

Do NOT Use Black on White

Most of the websites have pure black (HEX #000000) text over pure white (HEX #FFFFFF) background. But such high-contrast is very hard on eyes.

Programmers spend shit loads of time staring at text (code) on their screens and most of them prefer low contrast themes. For a good reason, it's easy on eyes.

If you ever worked on my vim for hours and tried to browse around web - your eyes will hurt with high-contrast on web.

Lower your contrast a bit and sooth it out:

  1. Assuming you have black text on white background. Don't use pure black (#000000) - use anything between: #222222 to #555555.
  2. If you can don't use pure white (#FFFFFF). Make it off white: #FAFAFA, #F9F9F9, #F8F8F8 etc. work great. But it's often hard to make it work so treat this as optional.

Contrast difference on WikiPedia typeset with Lucida Grande. Keep staring to see the difference.

Most of the web is text. And while we are fighting to improve everything, basics should not be forgotten. It is amazing how many big names, especially in publishing business hence close to typographic wisdom, have readability that doesn't even suck properly.

Line Height

Line-height can change your typography drastically. It's good to keep it in golden ration or between 1.5em to 1.6em. Why how what is a bit out of context. You can also use Pearsonified's Golden typography calculator.

More examples:

Microsoft Font List

Here are some popular sites who could spend few more 'minutes' on typography and improve their UX:

Wired Magazine & Other Publications

I like their content, but their typography sucks. You're from publishing industry for God's sake! But they are not alone, many publishers have typography on their websites that doesn't even suck properly. I adjusted the colors to low-contrast, shift to Lucida Grande and change line-height to 1.6em.

Quora

The only reason I don't visit Quora is bad typography. Yeah, I am that crazy! This is with Open Sans and 1.5em line-height.

I had Google+ here but they recently moved away from Arial.

Notes:

[1] Font availability stats from Wikipedia and [CSS Font Stack](http://cssfontstack.com/)

You are reading a post that I wrote a long time back—at least 7 years ago. Take it with a bag of salt.

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