Font surprise

[Sachiel]

Have you ever tried to design your web site with a beautifully selected fancy font, only to realize that most folks don't have it installed on their computer?

 

[webfreak]

I'd use an image if I needed to display fancy font.

 

[dotcomguy]

there are 2 types of fonts that are widely used:

Serif Fonts - these are most widely used for PRINT media ie Times Roman, Georgia, but are not good for the Web, because they are difficult to read on the screen. Serif fonts are those that have fine cross-lines at the extremities of the letter.

Sans Serif Fonts - these are fonts that don't have serifs. They are the best fonts to use for the WEB (ie Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet) but are not appropriate for print media.

 

[Sachiel]

The font element was a problem element from its inception. It?s not that it isn?t well supported because, ironically, it happens to be very well supported. And it?s not that more font faces are available in CSS the same issues concerning font support occur in CSS and in HTML, although CSS offers more sizing and display options.

 

[dotcomguy]

Historically, presentation via CSS wasn?t very well supported. However, at this time, almost all font features in CSS are supported across every onceivable contemporary browser, as well as having some support in older rowsers such as Netscape 4.x versions and Internet Explorer (IE) as early as 3.0, which incidentally was the first commercial browser to include any CSS support.

 

[kiz9999]

haha i would never make that mistake. designers are fully aware of this.

 

[siteseer]

but there are some amazing fonts sold retail. Is it the bummer that you have to choose between run of the mill fonts or use a special one and limit usership/viewership?