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furjaw
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Web page not seen in the same font! - 8/11/2007 1:44:45
I found that if a computer accesses my web page and his computer does not
have the font that I used installed on it, then he sees it in Times Roman!
I changed my font to Arial Black which solved the problem, but, that
certainly limits the fonts that one can use on a web page.
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womble
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RE: Web page not seen in the same font! - 8/11/2007 5:12:30
Just a note firstly - posting more than one thread about the same problem isn't very helpful.
That said, there's some info in this post that's not in your other post which kind of answers your problem. As you've discovered, the only safe way to use fonts on the web is to use ones that are commonly installed on computers and also have a backup, so in your styles you'd specify the font you want to use, followed by the one to use if that's not available, and the next etc. in decending order of preference - something like body { font: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } (use either serif or sans-serif last in the list). Of course it's also possible to specify in the browser the default font to use if none is given/available, which is why it's a good idea to put serif or sans serif last in the list. There are numerous resources on the web that list commonly installed fonts on different operating systems, and this question comes up regularly here on Outfront - using the site's search will find you a load of previous discussions with the various links to many of the resources available.
If for a specific piece of text, for example a title or a heading, you need a specific font, the only thing you can do is use a graphic of the font, but you need to at the very least use an alt attribute on your image, and preferably use an image replacement technique for if for whatever reason the images don't load. You should use this only for short bits of text though, for things like headings, and really nothing beats testing your site out on as many systems as possible to ensure it looks reasonable, and checking in various browsers and at various screen resolutions - rope all your friends in and get them to take a look at your site.
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