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I've been using "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Verdana", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif as my list. Seems to do what I want.

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Is that in order? I tend to use Helvetica first so Mac users don't have to endure Arial, then I add , my fallback for Linux, then Arial, then whatever crap your browser uses as a default (I assume it's crap but hope it isn't).

In that order. I don't do Hel first because Linux historically has a broken Hel. Mac users often have DejaVu, Bitstream Vera, or Verdana installed anyhow.

OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux.

That, and I've viewed my website in Safari on OSX, it looks correct (although, like everything on OSX, it has hard to read fuzzy fonts).

"OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux."

There are many more OSX users than Linux on the desktop.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201011-201111

Except I collect website stats on my sites. OSX users are the smallest minority.

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