I reminded someone I work with to use browser safe fonts on her website. She asked me today why she can see fonts on some websites that she knows she doesn´t have installed on her computer. Is that possible? If she wants fancy fonts on her website and she downloads them, aren´t the viewers going to see one of the fonts above as a replacement?

Carol. More than likely the text that is in a different font that isn´t installed on her computer is coming from one of three ways.

• The "text" isn´t really text, but an image.


• The text has been embedded (normally this means larger file downloads) or is in a flash movie or the like where they embed the font into the animation.


• She doesn´t realize that that font is installed on her computer.

Anyway, to answer your second question, you are absolutely correct that if the font is not found on the user´s computer that it will be rendered in a different font which will normally be one of the above fonts.

Other fonts and their ubiquitous rates at http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/2008/05/08/8-fonts-you-probably-dont-use-in-css-but-should/

How can I use the font kunsler script on a Yola site, also, can I add window media player safely? Thanks

Thanks for sharing the list above, just what I was looking for. Looking for web fonts, I came across this article, seems it could be the end of fixed web fonts with HTML5 :-)
http://www.broken-links.com/2009/05/28/exciting-times-html-5-web-fonts/

What you see is just a different system settings of the fonts. In Windows the standard font settings are whithout anti-aliasing of the fonts. It´s easy to adjust the computer settings on your computer but most of the windows users don´t know this. The display of fonts is can be set without the bitmap kind a style. The edges are softend, also in other applications. Check the help on your specific system. I can´t understand why this setting isn´t standard in windows.

As web designers I think we need to understand that despite our desire to control exactly how our website designs look, we can´t control everything. Thanks for the resource.

Yes i am also totally agree with that. Sometime you might be confused about what font should you use for your website. And at later stage google come with another stylish fonts. I would also stick with windows default installed fonts like Times New Roman, Arial

Using the CSS3 font-face rule, the reader can download the new font automatically. Like usual, Internet Explorer is behind and doesn´t yet support it. You can find more information at www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_fonts.asp

I was intrested in the comments you put about non-preloaded fonts being only from the 3 sources as a picture, embeded in flash or other player or simply being in the machine and not being seen before.
This jarred a bit with my experieance of using chinese, corean and japanese sites before the widespread loading of Asiatic fonts on european computers. There was aperiod when machines that had no capability to use a supporting font could suddenly render perfect ideographic characters on some pages and then a complete mess in other parts. At first you would imagine that they where using pictures but some messing about with the Source viewer showed that they were running text strings in either a local charcter set like euc- or in some forms of unicode encodeings.
It seemed that either css or more likely a little bit of java type script ran a special browser built-in system to download special web fonts and then use them (a multi-file html version of embeding fonts in PDF´s and word files).
Although I didn´t learn enough java often bilinugaly writen to understand it well: the company name Bitstream did crop up as a souce of the "technology".
If you are wanting to introduce downloadable fonts that check them to see if they still have any infomation about it and then just incorperate the codes stated into your pages.

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