Fonts don't show up correctly after publishing

[Wendi]

Hello!

I am publishing a website and my cute fonts that make the
page so unique just show up as times new roman in the
browser after I publish the site. Why won't it display my
fonts as they are? They look correct in frontpage while
I'm editing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Wendi

 

[Steve Easton]

"Special" fonts will only show in a web page if they
are installed in every computer that views the page because
your "special" font is not published to the server.
It is only visible to you because you have it in your computer.
Therefore, when viewed in another computer, the browser
"defaults" to a font that the computer has installed.

There is a way to embed fonts in a page and it's called
WEFT. However each person who views your site will
be prompted to download and install a font file, and will then
have to "refresh" your page for the font to appear.

If you are only using the font on a couple of areas on your pages,
take a screenshot and convert it to an image and use the image.

The drawback to this however, is that search engines can't
"see" the text that is in an image and therefore won't index that
part of the page.

hth
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Hello!

I am publishing a website and my cute fonts that make the
page so unique just show up as times new roman in the
browser after I publish the site. Why won't it display my
fonts as they are? They look correct in frontpage while
I'm editing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Wendi

 

[Rick Budde]

All a web page does is send intructions to the broswer.
The browser then interprets these instructions. In the
case of fonts, if your page instructs the broswer to
display such and such "cute font" and the cute font is
not available on that machine, the pc will substitute
with a font that is on that machine.

If you want your "cute fonts" to be displayed on the
visitors pc, you should convert these to gif or jpeg file
using a graphics program. The message will be displayed
exactly the way you want. Realize however that this
involves a tradeoff in that your web page will display
more slowly.

Most web developers avoid "cute fonts" because most
visitors will not stay with pages that take too long to
load.

 

[JL Amerson]

Put anything in your "cute" fonts in a graphic. That will maintain the look
you want. If you use text and a visitor to your site doesn't have that font,
their computer will substitute it with something else.