One of the first things you should learn when adjusting your typography with CSS is about font stacks. These are the lists of fonts that you would prefer your page be rendered in. Because the Web is not print, you can't easily force text to the font you want. But you can suggest. I have seen font stacks that had more fonts in them than there were characters being defined in the text! And I've seen other sites that just listed one font in the stack - hoping, I suppose, that it was generic enough that most browsers would have it. How many fonts do you typically use? If you choose "it depends" please let us know in the comments what it depends upon. Thanks.

Poll: How many fonts do you typically put in your font stacks? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:41:56.

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