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Re: Question About Fonts
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:55:53 GMT
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What you need to know about fonts in html is that you can't actually control
exactly how a user's web browser will use your font specifications. The
best you can hope for is to understand what the browser will most likely do
when trying to use your font specifications and plan accordingly.
While you can specify a particular size for the font, that specification can
be overridden by the user's browser -- therefore use tables and paragraphs
such that thay are able to resize depending on what the user's browser does
with the font size specification.
While you can specify a particular font, that specification can also be
overridden by the user's browser -- in fact, it has to because it can only
use fonts that are already installed on the user's computer system. For
example, while you may have a font called "Vixar ASCI" installed on your
computer and it makes your HTML pages look exactly as you want them to look,
someone else may not have that font installed and get a completely different
style of font when they view the same page -- unless you account for this
eventuality! What you want to do is specify a short list of other font
options so that even if the user doesn't have the Vixar ASCI font installed,
the style of font chosen will degrade gracefully over the fonts in your
list. In HTML we concern ourselves only with two main categories of fonts:
those that have a serif (serif fonts), and those that do not (sans serif
fonts). For more on letterform anatomy, please see (this may wrap):
http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/printpublishing/typography_basics/letterform_anatomy/main.html
This is an example of a serif font specification in HTML (use only the parts
between the "<, >" angle brackets):
<font face="palatino, times, times new roman, serif">Silence is foo!</font>
This is an example of a sans serif font specification in HTML (use only the
parts between the "<, >" angle brackets):
<font face="verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans serif">Silence is
foo!</font>
Please look carefully at the sans serif specification. This is how it
works: the user's web browser will hit upon the first font in the list that
is installed on the system -- so if it has verdana installed it will use
verdana, if not it will move to geneva, and so on until it just defaults to
any sans serif font. So while it may not be the precise font that you have
specified, it will be in a similar style -- if a sans serif font is
specified, it will use a sans serif font; if a serif font is specified, it
will use a serif font.
If you want to add Vixar ASCI in it will look just like this:
<font face="Vixar ASCI, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans serif">Silence is
foo!</font>
The last thing to note is that you don't have to specify all the fonts in
the examples, but you do want to note one common Windows font, one common
Mac font, and then just the general category of font whether it is serif or
sans serif. This would be a minimal font list for use in your font
specifications in HTML.
Common Mac Fonts - Arial, Chicago, Courier, Geneva, Helvetica, Times
(usually browser default).
Common Windows Fonts - Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Helvetica,
Times New Roman (usually browser default), and Verdana.
-- Hop-Frog
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| Hi all, I'm trying to make my site compatable with as many browsers and operating systems as possible (along with eliminating the music), and I was had a question about the Vixar ASCI font. Do most computers have it? I know that with the current (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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