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As I'm working through an SL3/SL4 application, and starting to work with fonts, I'm finding a lack of documentation and best practices on font strategies. For example:
- Are there common fallback fonts for the supported font set (Arial, Comic Sans MS, etc.)? Is there a set of recommendations on fallback fonts between Windows and Macintosh systems?
- Are there Silverlight-supported fonts that will (almost always) be on an end-user system, or like 99.5% of the time, like "Times New Roman" or "Verdana", including Macintosh? Are there any sites that list this kind of information?
- Are there recommendations for accounting for Moonlight (Linux) views of SL apps and the fonts that are/aren't deployed with Linux systems?
- Is there a way to determine, in XAML or code-behind, if an end-user has a supported font on their system? I'd like this to run upon entry and then change the XAML as a result of findings to support the right font or allow an embedded one to load.
- In the documentation for supported fonts, it lists a bunch of fonts that "Silverlight text elements can use the following Latin fonts if available on the local computer.". Does this mean that if I use a font that is not in this list, such as "Cooper Black", and an end-user does have this font on their system, they will still need to download the font as embedded in my application?
Any links or pointers that can lead to at least some of the questions above answered would be very appreciated.