Why won't my Firefox open PDF files. Flipping typical. Mad Mimi Email Marketing. The best way to embed a font in your website – @font-face. We are all bored of using the same small set of web safe fonts in our websites. Do Arial, Verdana, and Times New Roman sound painfully familiar?
Luckily there are quite a few different ways to embed fonts in a website including Cufon, sIFR, FLIR, PIR, Font Jazz and Dynamic Text Replacement. Most of these methods involve using JavaScript and Flash to display the custom font and some of these font embedding methods can be quite tricky to set up. There is one very simple way to embed a font in your site which doesn’t require any JavaScript or Flash. What is @font-face? @font-face is basically a CSS rule that allows you to embed a font in your website so that viewers of your site will see that font even if it’s not installed on their computer. Why use @font-face? @font-face is a simple and elegant way to embed a font in your website and is in most cases superior to all other font embedding methods.
How to use @font-face Issues with @font-face Related posts: Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks. Last updated: 2008/06/03 Return to the main page Introduction Here you can find the list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as "browser safe fonts".
This is the reference I use when making web pages and I expect you will find it useful too. If you are new to web design, maybe you are thinking: "Why I have to limit to that small set of fonts? I have a large collection of nice fonts in my computer". Well, as seasoned web designers already know, browsers can use only the fonts installed in each computer, so it means that every visitor of your web page needs to have all the fonts you want to use installed in his/her computer. If you want to know how the fonts are displayed in other OS's or browsers than yours, after the table you can find several screen shots of this page in different systems and browsers. The list First, a few introductory notes: The names in grey are the generic family of each font.