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Best way to use Gill Sans as body text

TabTab
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Gill Sans is the body text font in the branding guidelines I working with. 

Is it safe to assume that Gill Sans has a large enough install base or should I look for a font replacement option?



The business seems to think that it is a standard font on PC but every set of stats I find seem to indicate that it is on 60% or less PC's. Although some sites seem to think it is  a websafe font.

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  • JamieStantonJamieStanton
    We used Gill Sans on a site for the same reasons and FontSquirreled it. However, the font looked utterly appalling on Chrome / Firefox on XP, so we eventually substituted it for a Google Font lookalike (Carme) and they are happy. 



  • TabTab

    Thanks. I did not feel comfortable just assuming people would have Gill Sans installed. The Google Font lookalike seems like the best idea. 
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