Possible to Change One Font on One Website?

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Alan 'A.J.' Franzman

One website that I visit often has the following inline style scattered
throughout its pages (example edited for brevity):
[element] { font-family: "MS Sans
Serif",Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; }

Unfortunately, I have a small high-resolution monitor that other users share,
and to keep things legible for everyone I have Windows' display set to show
fonts at 150% of normal size. (Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced)

Using these settings, MS Sans Serif is a blocky pile of crap at many of the
sizes this site uses (roughly 7 to 24 points, with some bold). I don't know
why anyone would make it the first choice in a font list.

Is there a way that I can replace only MS Sans Serif, only on the pages of one
domain, with a different font (perhaps using some tricks in a user
stylesheet)? I want to avoid affecting the appearance of other websites and
changing other fonts, if at all possible.

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Alan "A.J." Franzman

Email: a.j.franzman [ A T ] verizon [ D O T ] net

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Alan said:
One website that I visit often has the following inline style scattered
throughout its pages (example edited for brevity):
[element] { font-family: "MS Sans
Serif",Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; }

Unfortunately, I have a small high-resolution monitor that other users share,
and to keep things legible for everyone I have Windows' display set to show
fonts at 150% of normal size. (Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced)

Using these settings, MS Sans Serif is a blocky pile of crap at many of the
sizes this site uses (roughly 7 to 24 points, with some bold). I don't know
why anyone would make it the first choice in a font list.
Click to expand...

MS Sans Serif is not a scalable font, which is why it looks so bad at
many font sizes.

Perhaps you could complain to the site's webmaster.
 
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Alan said:
One website that I visit often has the following inline style scattered
throughout its pages (example edited for brevity):
[element] { font-family: "MS Sans
Serif",Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; }

Unfortunately, I have a small high-resolution monitor that other users
share, and to keep things legible for everyone I have Windows' display set
to show fonts at 150% of normal size. (Control Panel > Display > Settings
Advanced)
Click to expand...

Using these settings, MS Sans Serif is a blocky pile of crap at many of the
sizes this site uses (roughly 7 to 24 points, with some bold). I don't
know why anyone would make it the first choice in a font list.

Is there a way that I can replace only MS Sans Serif, only on the pages of
one domain, with a different font (perhaps using some tricks in a user
stylesheet)? I want to avoid affecting the appearance of other websites and
changing other fonts, if at all possible.
Click to expand...

MS Sans Serif is not a scalable font, which is why it looks so bad at
many font sizes.

Perhaps you could complain to the site's webmaster.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't answer my question.

Alternatively, is there a way that I could replace only MS Sans Serif with
another font, on all webpages in MSIE?

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Alan "A.J." Franzman

Email: a.j.franzman [ A T ] verizon [ D O T ] net

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