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I use twitter Bootstrap and encountered a problem with a Helvetica Neue font.
My system has this font – Photoshop shows it as “Helvetica Neue LT Com” (screenshot), I’m trying to use next declaration: “Helvetica Neue”,”Helvetica Neue LT Com”, “Helvetica Neue LT Com 37 Thin Condensed”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; but my browser always uses Arial. Why?
Helvetica doesn’t have full browser support; in all honesty not a lot of fonts are fully web safe.
Could try using fontsquirrel to generate the font-face generations; but from experience have had issues trying to use Helvetica in this way.
Other alternatives could be to use a similar font from fontsquirrel or Google Web Fonts or try and find a web safe font on CSS Font Stack which shows font support on Mac OS X and Windows, from that link you can see that Helvetica is 100% supported on Mac but only 7.34% on Windows.
Main point is don’t use Helvetica.