Problem with fonts

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When i open my browser up and type http://www.oxide.x3hosting.info i get to see my fonts correctly. When i open the same page on a different computer I am not able to see the font that i chose. Its Arial. I chose Vistor BBK. so why won't the Vistor BBK not show up on the other computer?

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Because that VisitorBBK type font is only available on your computer not on your visitors, so it reverts to the default font arial... Thats why you see common fonts in webpages, if you want to use the BBK font look for the MS font embedding process for webpages...

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Which fonts are able to be used as standard fonts on web pages?

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Found this: http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/archive/websafefonts.html quite a good introduction to what fonts are available.

There aren't many unfortunately, due to the different platforms people use. The easiest way to use fonts not in the list is by generating an image, this will cause accessibility issues though. You must specify alt text for the image (brief and concise), Google and other search engines wont be able to read the text from an image, and changing the text in an image is more effort than just changing some text in an html file.

Generally it's best to keep this technique for just doing banners and the like.

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