font style help

[oneeyebrow]

how can i use a font on my website so that it is accessible to any computer which acceses my site?
can i upload a font and point to that?

[fancyf]

Yes you can... just make a link for them to download it. (with instrutions on how to install it... some might not know)

Ppl that don't d/l it will either see the pages with some other regular font you specified in your code or their default browser font.

[CompGeek01]

As fancyf said, they would have to download the font and install it in order to see your font. There is currently no way to 'hotlink' a font and have your visitors view plain text with that custom font. The only real way to do this is to create images with the font you have.

Macromedia Flash also has the ability to show custom fonts, but it isn't extremely tasteful to include a bunch of Flash animation for static text.

If you really want to get complicated, PHP has the ability to generate images on the fly with custom text. I can link you if you want to go this way ;)

-B

[kpm547]

I thought there was some way to embed fonts into a webpage. I'm not sure if all browsers are capable of viewing though. I'll see what I can find. Maybe it was the flash method.

[kpm547]

Try this page. It looks like it might work.

http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml

[CompGeek01]

Hmm, interesting. I've honestly always been told you can't do it. I"ll have to look into that. Looks like you need to use ActiveX though. :(

[fancyf]

Originally posted by CompGeek01
Hmm, interesting. I've honestly always been told you can't do it. I"ll have to look into that. Looks like you need to use ActiveX though. :( hmm the way it's written you don't need to if you use Open Type font and install Microsoft WEFT 3... the other one isn't freeware and uses ActiveX and TT fonts...

"To work in IE4 and above, you need to add a pointer to an ActiveX control immediately after the LINK tag OR ELSE create an OpenType file for Explorer and refer to both on your page."

[oneeyebrow]

ok CompGeek01
post the php link and ill have a check to see if its for me :p

[CompGeek01]

This is the best tuorial I've found:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/21/index4a.html?tw=programming

[oneeyebrow]

thx

[seanieboy77]

I did something like you did but with sound and everytime someone went on the site it asked them if they wanted to download it. Although after they downloaded it, it still asked them to redownload it.

-BTY

[richard_cocks]

use a standard font, at least make your site compatible with one, because most users don't download fonts, and some may even have font-overriding on because it makes sites readable :]