On May 12, 2006, at 10:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a way to incorporate non-traditional fonts onto a page on a
> hosted site? Say for instance, Automatica or Fusion?
>
> the CSS stylesheet entry would be something like:
>
> .automatica { font-family: Automatica; }
>
> I'm presuming that the font would need to be uploaded to the web
> server
> (or possibly linked to where the font originates). How do I tell the
> stylesheet to use this font (or perhaps to use this font library), in
> addition to the standard fonts built into the OS?
>
> Next question: what would be the CSS syntax for specifying both
> primary
> and alternate fonts for when the primary is not available?
>
> Related question: I want to do this to avoid having to create
> additional images and CSS markup. Is this even a wise and accepted
> practice?
If the user's computer doesn't have that font, they will see whatever
default font their browser has set.
To specify alternate fonts:
> .automatica { font-family: Automatica, helvetica, sans-serif; }
>
which will choose Automatica first, helvetica second and the
browser's default sans-serif font third
If you are specifying a font with a space in it, use quotes
The only problem is that if Automatica and helvetica have very
different size characteristics, the results can be unpredictable.
I wouldn't do this, but you can try it out and see for yourself -
just make sure you test on a computer that doesn't have Automatica
installed.
Check out this link too:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
-Christy
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