help with font style
I need to have this font on a webpage: freehand591 BT It is a handwriting type style script. I cannot seem to make it work in normal situation and I believe it should be in css. Can anyone give me the coding to make this show up on a website? Thank you very much in advance.
Megan posted this at 15:54 — 23rd May 2006.
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Basically, you can't use a special font like that on a website. Well, there might be a way to do it, but it would involve some complicated scripting.
What happens with fonts on web pages is the browser looks for the specified font on a users computer. If it's installed, the browser will use it to render the text. If it's not, it will go to the next availble option. For common fonts like arial, verdana, georgia, times etc., you can probably trust that most users have that font installed and will see it as you intended. Even so, it's good to specify a few options just in case. freehand591 is not a common font, it won't be installed on most computers, so you'd better not count on it looking like you want it to. If you're stuck on that font your best option would be to do it as a graphic.
Also I think your coding is a little messed up here. I don't think I've ever seen a tag The code should look like this:
In the CSS:
.yourclass {font-family: freehand591, optionb, optionc, cursive;}
(You should probably test to see that "cursive" works as a generic family. There are several generic families that will use the default option for that family - serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace.)
In the HTML:
Your text here
Of course, you would use the proper mark-up here (a header tag or list or whatever depending on what your text is).
Let me know if you need any clarification there.
Megan
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sunny59 posted this at 18:13 — 23rd May 2006.
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Thank you for the help.. I will attempt what you suggested and see if I can get that font to work - If not,will use normal handwriting font installed with windows.
Greg K posted this at 18:47 — 23rd May 2006.
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Just to clerify, the face thing was probably a reference to the old way of setting fonts:
Text
-Greg
Megan posted this at 20:12 — 23rd May 2006.
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See, how fully I've been converted. I didn't even remember the face attribute.
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