Fonts // Compatibility

[ecntrc]

I was wondering how can you tell or if you know if someones computer has the font your using on your website? I want to use Palatino Linotype for my clients site instead of using Georgia, something nice but besides verdana or times new roman.. Just list all the fonts I want to use and ?? Anyone know?

[Jacorre]

If the font is not available it will try to move onto the next font you defined and so on and so on. You could make the text into an image if you want to use that font. That way the user will see it, like for the navigation. But if you're talking about font for the body of the page, I would suggest listing fonts that are close to what you're looking for.

[ecntrc]

Yeah after I posted this I was like wait I can make images but I would have to make so many, I said forget it, if their comp or browser dont support it I will use the best ones first and the ones I like but least like last.. Thanks Jacorre

[MoodsR4Cattle]

Webmonkey has a tutorial on embedding fonts:

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/d...tutorial2.html

It is possible to use a different font, but it takes a bit of work. It must be either an Embedded Open Type ( .eot Microsoft) or TrueDoc (.pfr Netscape).

Although you can make your font unique, also consider that some people with high resolution monitors will see your pages much smaller than the 800 x 600 monitor users, and anything less than 10 point is hard enough to read even using the usual sans-serif fonts. A fancy font will look like gibberish.