Configuring Font Stacks

A collection of pre-defined font stacks, all setup so you don't have to.

Slate contains a number of font stacks, all ready to go. These favour nice but less commonly installed font faces first, falling back common system fonts if these are missing. If you are looking to use custom fonts via@font-face, see here.

Simple Font Stacks

$times: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;
$arial: Arial, sans-serif;
$georgia: Georgia, serif;
$garamond: "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "Garamond", serif;
$helvetica: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
$verdana: "Verdana Ref", Verdana, sans-serif;
$trebuchet: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;
$gillsans: "Gill Sans MT", "Gill Sans", Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;

Full Font Stacks

$stimes: Cambria, "Hoefler Text", Utopia, "Liberation Serif", "Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
$sgeorgia: Constantia, "Lucida Bright", Lucidabright, "Lucida Serif", Lucida, "DejaVu Serif", "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Liberation Serif", Georgia, serif;
$sgaramond: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Garamond, serif;
$shelvetica: Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", Univers, Calibri, "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", "Myriad Pro", Myriad, "DejaVu Sans Condensed", "Liberation Sans", "Nimbus Sans L", Tahoma, Geneva, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
$sverdana: Corbel, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Liberation Sans", "Verdana Ref", Verdana, sans-serif;
$strebuchet: "Segoe UI", Candara, "Bitstream Vera Sans", "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;
$sgillsans: Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", Univers, Calibri, "Myriad Pro", Myriad, "DejaVu Sans Condensed", "Liberation Sans", "Nimbus Sans L", Tahoma, Geneva, "Gill Sans MT", "Gill Sans", sans-serif;

Terminal Font Stack

$terminal: Monaco, "Lucida Sans Typewriter", Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;