Web-safe Fonts for Device-independent Mobile Web Applications

Abstract

The increasing diversity of mobile devices used to access web applications cause new problems to developers of device-independent mobile web applications. One of them is related to inconsistent fonts support. This paper provides font usage guidelines for the mobile Web. The guidelines are based on results of a font availability detection experiment we have carried out on a wide range of diverse mobile devices. The paper includes a detailed description of the experiment methodology and a summary of results.