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Is there a list, preferably visual, of fonts that are supported for use when customizing pages?
Thanks!

It actually varies from page to page, depending one which stylesheet is being loaded on that page. For example. Since "Redressed" is used in all the headers for the main site, it can be used within the forums, but often not in profiles. Fonts that are already being loaded into profiles can be used on those profiles.

Beyond that, just look up a list of "web safe fonts." It includes things like Arial, Impact, Comic Sans, Georgia, etc - fonts that typically come pre-installed on pretty much every computer.

If it's for building epic profiles, then all of Google Fonts is open to you, so long as yo use the bit of CSS code to put it in.

The code for this is a security issue so Kim will remove it soon. I wouldn't rely on it, personally!

Sadly no such thing is possible, because fonts are largely supported on a computer by computer basis, not on a per-site basis. This means that there is literally no way of knowing what fonts someone has installed on their computer, so there is no guarantee that even the most common fonts to your operating system will be on someone else's computer.

This is why online fonts are typically handled with what is known as a "font-stack", where you declare a whole bunch of acceptable fonts. It begins with the font you'd most like to use, and then is followed by a list of other possible fonts going from most to least desirable replacements, and ends with a catch-all.

It'd look something like this:

This font-stack says "Dear computer viewing this site, do you have Baskerville? No? Maybe you have the variant 'Baskerville Old Face'? Okay, then try Hoefler Text..." and so forth and so on, until it just says, "None of those??! Then just use any serif font you happen to have on hand!"

Here's a great website that has put together some font-stacks for a lot of common fonts, so you'll always get something in the ball park of what you were hoping to show people: http://cssfontstack.com/

Then of course there is Google Fonts, which allows you to temporarily load up one or two fonts into a willing browser and use a font probably no one has installed. The calligraphy one we use for titles here is Redressed, and it loads on the main pages of the site. There are plans to make Google Fonts available to Epic Character Profiles pretty soon here.

Some people have found a work-around bug that lets them use it now, but I dis-recommend it because that work-around is going away real soon.

That's a bug?

Yes. Allowing @import is an insanely huge security risk. I don't know why it's currently allowed but as soon as I'm able I will fix it.

Oh, boo. Was hoping to spruce up some pages with different font faces. Thanks anyway!

You've no idea how eager I am for this to happen!!