Dreamweaver - Embedding Fonts

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Embedding Fonts

colbylyons

2005-10-26, 10:17 pm

We have recently switched our corporate font and I have created the new site
using that font... one issue, the font is NOT mainstream, by any stretch of the
imagination... I am trying to get help with embedding the fonts into the pages.
If anyone has any tips, I would be most obliged for a minute of your time.

Thank you very much,

Colby

PeteC

2005-10-26, 10:17 pm

colbylyons wrote:
> We have recently switched our corporate font and I have created the
> new site using that font... one issue, the font is NOT mainstream, by
> any stretch of the imagination... I am trying to get help with
> embedding the fonts into the pages. If anyone has any tips, I would
> be most obliged for a minute of your time.

You cannot embed fonts in a web page; the browser will try to present the
page using the closest font available on the users machine. You can only use
a small number of fonts and be sure of users seeing your website as you
intended it (see
http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/...bsafefonts.html)

If you have a captive audience, you could install the font on each machine,
and the website will use it. To be certain, use a font declaration in your
CSS file similar to

p {font-family: "Name of your very strange font", Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;}

If the font isn't installed, the first available font (left to right) will
be substituted.

If you need your corporate font to be visible to people outside the company,
you will have to put the text in a graphic. Fine for headlines, but not
recommended for body text.

HTH,

Pete.
--
Peter Connolly
http://www.acutecomputing.co.uk
Derby
UK
Skype ID: acutecomputing

Murray *TMM*

2005-10-27, 6:19 pm

Or use sIFR.
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

or here -

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx.../sifr_demo.html

Or use TIP.

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/

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"PeteC" <noemailrequired@nospamrequired.co.uk> wrote in message
news:djp4qs$ris$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> colbylyons wrote:
>
> You cannot embed fonts in a web page; the browser will try to present the
> page using the closest font available on the users machine. You can only
> use a small number of fonts and be sure of users seeing your website as
> you intended it (see
> http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/...bsafefonts.html)
>
> If you have a captive audience, you could install the font on each
> machine, and the website will use it. To be certain, use a font
> declaration in your CSS file similar to
>
> p {font-family: "Name of your very strange font", Arial, Helvetica,
> sans-serif;}
>
> If the font isn't installed, the first available font (left to right) will
> be substituted.
>
> If you need your corporate font to be visible to people outside the
> company, you will have to put the text in a graphic. Fine for headlines,
> but not recommended for body text.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pete.
> --
> Peter Connolly
> http://www.acutecomputing.co.uk
> Derby
> UK
> Skype ID: acutecomputing
>