Jack Michaelson — Thu, 10 May 2001 16:52:54 +0000

yes it did, just forgot to say thank you, so:

Thanks!

detox — Thu, 10 May 2001 12:32:47 +0000

I know that there have been times when I have wanted to use embedding, but I have chosen not to. As web developers, designers etc, you make the choice that you see fit.

Anyway, hope that article cleared up some questions you had

Jack Michaelson — Thu, 10 May 2001 10:18:33 +0000

I agree with all you are saying, but I still think that in some cases font embedding is the solution.

detox — Wed, 09 May 2001 23:51:40 +0000

I'd have to say that I agree with fringey on that. Good design stands by itself. The other thing is that there are numerous studies with regards to content on the web. With most people you are fighting an uphill battle to get them to read all of it anyway. The best way you can aid this is by making your content legible, ie a standard font.

This isn't trying to dampen any creative urges!

Fringey — Wed, 09 May 2001 22:03:58 +0000

IMO, the font that you use or the body of the site is not that important if the basic design is good enough to convey the style. You can use really odd fonts in your graphics, you shouldn't NEED them for the content...

Jack Michaelson — Wed, 09 May 2001 15:19:30 +0000

"...and use gif/jpg images for the one or two areas that you want to highlight with really oddball specialty fonts"

I agree with that, but what if a whole page is to be designed in a certain style, making 'really oddball specialty fonts' necessary?

detox — Wed, 09 May 2001 08:55:36 +0000

Yes it is possible, You have to download a small program called WEFT (?) from microsoft to enable this.

Here is a straight forward tutorial on the subject http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial2.html

This quote is from a previous thread on the matter

Quote: Personally, I feel that embedded fonts are one of the worst ideas to ever hit the web. You're forcing your users to download the embedded font just to use some odd typeface and they don't even get a choice on whether or not to do it. It'll slow down your site for everyone and some font files can be huge. You'll be much better off in the long run if you stick to more commonly available fonts for the majority of the page and use gif/jpg images for the one or two areas that you want to highlight with really oddball specialty fonts. Your pages will load a lot faster that way and there are many standard fonts that look VERYsimilar to any specialty font.