Web Page Development - Font Issue?

Question

Using a funky font on my wife's cake website and obviously if someone accesses the page and does not have this particular font installed the text will end up coming up in some basic default font.

Is there anything you can do in the programming to make the font come up and display correctly?

Answer 1

IE supports WEFT only for embedded fonts. The other method for embedding fonts is sIFR. The best way to get the font you want to use is making text images using the font you want. There is also Dynamic Text Replacement.



http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext/

http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=5&issue=58#6



WEFT: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx



Ron

Answer 2

Font-face (a css thing you can google) is a method that's been widely adopted by all the good browsers currently in use - by which I mean, everybody but Internet Explorer. It sucks for so many reasons, and lack of font-face support is just another specific way it's holding back the internet.



The only truly safe method to get it to show up everywhere is to make a picture of it and use the picture. If you really want to support font-face, you can take the graceful-degradation strategy, where you provide a fallback alternative (in this case, an image) for browsers that aren't cutting edge. Not to say that font-face is cutting edge, it's been widely adopted for about two years, no thanks to IE. The idea behind graceful degradation is that users with competent browsers will see a prettier, shinier version of your page, but the less pretty-shiny version is still more than usable.

Answer 3

I have tried tampering with that some time ago. I managed to get some results out of it but it is just too big of a mess. Firefox has a way to implement that works on some other browsers. IE needs the font file to be in a wicked format that is a pain to get it there because the conversion software sucks. Safari was having encoding problems with latin characters.



What i advise you is not to use that or just ask the users to download the font file and install.

Answer 4

Sorry, but do you have a screenshot of your problem? That would help more than text :p

Answer 5

Yes, use graphics instead. It's the only sure way.