How to make a font I used be available to anyone?

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I published a small 7 page site. I used a couple not so common fonts just
because they look good. The site published fine and when I look at it on my
PC, it works perfect. When I looked at it from my PC at work, all of the
fonts "defaulted" to Times New Roman (or something very similar. I'm
speculating that my work PC doesn't have the fonts I used installed. Is
there a way to put the fonts into the web site site when it's published so
anyone who looks at it will see the fonts I chose?

Thanks,
Dan
 
They can be added w/ a technology named WEFT
- but it is flawed and a security risk blocked by many users/ browsers
- plus many fonts are copyrighted preventing distribution
Stick w/ web safe fonts, see http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
or where critical use images for special words (like corporate names)

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|I published a small 7 page site. I used a couple not so common fonts just
| because they look good. The site published fine and when I look at it on my
| PC, it works perfect. When I looked at it from my PC at work, all of the
| fonts "defaulted" to Times New Roman (or something very similar. I'm
| speculating that my work PC doesn't have the fonts I used installed. Is
| there a way to put the fonts into the web site site when it's published so
| anyone who looks at it will see the fonts I chose?
|
| Thanks,
| Dan
 
dn0460 said:
I published a small 7 page site. I used a couple not so common fonts just
because they look good. The site published fine and when I look at it on
my
PC, it works perfect. When I looked at it from my PC at work, all of the
fonts "defaulted" to Times New Roman (or something very similar. I'm
speculating that my work PC doesn't have the fonts I used installed. Is
there a way to put the fonts into the web site site when it's published so
anyone who looks at it will see the fonts I chose?
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No, there's no good way. You need to limit yourself to the fonts which you
can be sure are installed on your end-users' computers. As Steven posted,
here's a list: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

You can, of course, make a graphic out of some text here and there so that
it displays in an unusual font.
 
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