[thelist] forcing a website font

John C Bullas (soton.ac.uk relay) jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Fri Mar 12 04:37:08 CST 2004


At 09:56 12/03/2004, you wrote:

>>>Ok forcing a font... is it possible to force a font to be read from a 
>>>browser
>>>even though it is not installed on the clients machine?  Perhaps a 
>>>detect or a
>>>popup if the font is not on the local machine?
>>
>>What is WEFT all about?
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft2/default.htm
>>
>>is that a way to enforce it but is that only MSIE 5+???
>
>you can embed fonts into your page, but when we did it a couple of years 
>ago we found it exceptionally temperamental and eventually the client got 
>us to pull it.

Same experience here, it only seems to work with the client over my 
shoulder and not at his place ;)

Alternative is to use embedded transparent images of the text in the right 
font <botch up>

FB


>there's a very basic guide at 
>http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml
>
>you'll need to do *both* .pfr and .eot (probably with some js to identify 
>which browser and serve the appropriate gubbins)
>
>good luck
>
>kx

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