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Solution: Create a font stack

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Solution: Create a font stack

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Let me show you what I came up with for our challenge. The font stack I came up with was Quicksand, Arial Rounded MT Bold, which is quite a mouthful, then Arial, Helvetica, and of course, at last resort, sans-serif. So let me show you how I came up with that. So I started by viewing our example page in the browser and using the fallback bookmark clip. In the section for Quicksand, I tried out a few possible options. First I thought of Arial, which actually isn't a bad match because it has similar X heights and similar heights on the caps as well. It's just a little thicker and not spaced out as much, but not bad. But that's definitely going to be in my font stack somewhere. I also tried Arial Rounded MT Bold. Which is an odd one but a system font none the less. That ones much thinker than my web font but the personality is similar. So I thought it made sense to keep it closer to the top of my font stack. And then of course for anything that didn't have Arial Rounded MT bold or Arial…

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