HTML: Downloadable Fonts

[lokimelt2]

Hello. I am working on a relatively simple webpage for a vet hospital. I am using downloable fonts to make the pages look nicer. I noticed that on some of my friends' systems, the downloable fonts do not work on IE 5.00 I assume this is a setting either on the browser or OS level because downloadable fonts are supposed to be supported in 5.0+ It works fine at home and at work, so I am baffled. Any ideas? :confused:

The page, for reference, is:

http://www.all-pets-hospital.com/test/test.html

thanks for any info!

Cheers,
tom

[Compguy Pete]

As a general rule followed by most designers is that if you use a non-standard font. That you would limit the use of that font into images for your site. Leaving the majority of your font usage to the standard fonts such as Arial, times, courier, verdana.

You might run into other issues when trying to force other fonts on your site readers. There maybe ownership/Lic. issues to deal with. An extreme example of this would be Adobe billing your client for 10,000 versions of a font that surfers had downloaded and installed. Were perhaps you thought it was free and somehow that font had been mischannelled.

[lokimelt2]

I am aware of this general rule; however, many sites do have downloadable fonts as they make the page much more eye-pleasing and unique.

Thanks for the licensing warning though - that is something that I (stupidly) forgot to think about. I will use only freeware fonts from now on...

So, then the question remains - why do some browsers read the downloable fonts and others do not? Does anyone know the browser settings?

Thanks,
tom

Originally posted by Compguy Pete
As a general rule followed by most designers is that if you use a non-standard font. That you would limit the use of that font into images for your site. Leaving the majority of your font usage to the standard fonts such as Arial, times, courier, verdana.

You might run into other issues when trying to force other fonts on your site readers. There maybe ownership/Lic. issues to deal with. An extreme example of this would be Adobe billing your client for 10,000 versions of a font that surfers had downloaded and installed. Were perhaps you thought it was free and somehow that font had been mischannelled.