How do I embed a font?
Hi there everyone,
I am looking for some help here.
My web sites uses fonts such as Matisee ITC, Chiller and Adler, now these are not common fonts and not everyone has them installed on their computer.
How do I embed the font into my web page so that whoever goes on the fonts will display no matter if they have it installed on their computer or not.
So font embedding is the question?
Hope to hear from you all soon,
Cheers
Steve,
Maverick posted this at 21:07 — 21st March 2001.
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Joined: Dec 1999
There's a tutorial on it here:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/45/index0a_page2.html?tw=design
Personally, I feel that embedded fonts are one of the worst ideas to ever hit the web. You're forcing your users to download the embedded font just to use some odd typeface and they don't even get a choice on whether or not to do it. It'll slow down your site for everyone and some font files can be huge. You'll be much better off in the long run if you stick to more commonly available fonts for the majority of the page and use gif/jpg images for the one or two areas that you want to highlight with really oddball specialty fonts. Your pages will load a lot faster that way and there are many standard fonts that look VERYsimilar to any specialty font.
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