Fonts
I'm wondering if any of you know how to embed some code (HTML, javascript, whatever) into your source that makes a viewer see a certain font whether they have that font on their computer or not. See http://chris.pirillo.com for an example (obviously his blog). When I first visited the site, I saw the font which was really awesome because I didn't have it on my computer. He's got a link to download the font, but it seems I didn't need to download it because it showed up perfectly. If you look at his source, I didn't see anything in the style sheet or the coding with that font and even if it was, I'm not sure how he made it so you instantly see the page in the right font. Heck, I even went to my local library and it showed up with that font. How do you do it?
Thanks
disaster-master posted this at 05:57 — 6th February 2003.
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I see this in his css code:
@font-face {
font-family: Chris Pirillo;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(http://chris.pirillo.com/CHRISPI1.eot);
it appears that the font is being imported from http://chris.pirillo.com/CHRISPI1.eot somehow. Not sure how that is working but it does.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions
Also, in his code you see the following which means that if the users browser doesn't or can't use the Chris font it will use Lucida Console, etc.
.post { font-family: Chris Pirillo, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Courier New; color: Black; font-size: 14pt; width: 560px; text-align: justify; }
I think I am correct on this.
HEY SUZANNE!!! We need you on this one.
The Webmistress posted this at 08:40 — 6th February 2003.
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Welcome to TWF beammeup4,
You have certainly started with an interesting question! I have pondered this situation for some time and never worked out how it could be done, obviously it can and now we await Suzanne's expert voice on the matter
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Suzanne posted this at 14:31 — 6th February 2003.
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You don't need me! You've got it all pegged.
Actually, I haven't done any work with embedding fonts (this is a method of embedding, clearly -- no different from the original WEFT experiments, just in the CSS instead of in the font element).
PC/IE is the only browser that supports it, it seems: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/fontface.asp
Suzanne posted this at 14:37 — 6th February 2003.
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http://alis.isoc.org/web_ml/index.en.html#suite may be of interest, as well, though it applies to multilingual sites.
Roo posted this at 22:11 — 6th February 2003.
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I read about embedding fonts when one of the 4X versions of Netscape came out.
I viewed the site above and it really is kind of cool but........
In Mozilla the font seems to be Courier something, In IE I got a message about the site needing to temporarily needing install fonts, and I see what I'm assuming is what he means me to see.
What I'm wondering is how your average surfer using IE would react to the message.
Would the non savvy run away as fast as they can do you think?
It really would be cool to be able to use a wider variety of font, but I question the usabilty of this.
Anyone have any thoughts about this?
Roo
The Webmistress posted this at 23:26 — 6th February 2003.
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I also viewed it in IE and didn't get any message about font installing??!!
Suzanne posted this at 23:34 — 6th February 2003.
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IE/Mac doesn't work. I personally do not like viewing installed fonts as people tend to choose fonts that are really hard to read.
Roo posted this at 00:03 — 7th February 2003.
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Julia really? Do you possibly have the embedded font installed? Or maybe something similar?
I do suppose some would use hard to read fonts..(such as when my son wanted to use one called 'Checkstub' on a senior English paper. *Sigh*)
Personally I'd love to use Century Gothic, Garamond, Windsor............
Roo
The Webmistress posted this at 08:30 — 7th February 2003.
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Nope I don't have that font and something similar wouldn't work as it has to be what's specified in his font list.
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