hi guys, i have a question is there a way or a script or software that you can use on your website so that your own font can be readable from the visitor's pc or browser, even if they do not have the font you use on your website... so that the design you've made will stay the same on any visitors browser or pc?
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andy206uk posted this at 20:57—12th August 2007.
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I think Microsoft played with a technology that allowed you to embed fonts within a webpage, but it's only compatible with Internet Explorer and even then it's pretty flaky. Best thing to do is use CSS to specify that as the primary font and then fall back to more common fonts if they don't.
No-one bothers embedding fonts anymore, it's just not practical.
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Roo posted this at 21:58—12th August 2007.
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Yes I played with that once and IE popped up a warning window about it. I figured that it would freak people out so I didn't do it.
That said...I do seem to recall reading something about doing this (with css???) at ALA or from Zeldman's site or something.
I can't recall the details but maybe a search of those sites might help.
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Megan posted this at 14:54—13th August 2007.
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You can do it with Flash. I've seen it done. The technique is called sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement).
Find out about it here: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
For a small amount of text - headings and such, you can also just make them as images and use CSS to replace plain text with a background image.
In both cases, the techniques are only good for smaller amounts of text. Not for whole paragraphs or articles. Use them for headings or other small bits only. Other text needs to be done in regular HTML. As Andy said, there is no reason why you can't specify a lot of fonts in your CSS. Check out the CSS on Joe Clark's site as an example - he uses long chains of fonts with some unusual choices.
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AveSatani_666 posted this at 05:38—14th August 2007.
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thanks meg, im gonna try that asap...