Set text Arial Rounded MT Bold shows as Times on other computers?

[Guest]

I set my text as Arial Rounded MT Bold. It looks great on my computer. When
I look at it on other computers it shows up as Times New Roman. Any
suggestions on how to keep the text looking the way that I set it.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Each machine viewing your site must have the font you have selected installed for it to be
displayed.

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[Guest]

Is there a list of common fonts. I really liked the rounded text.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

No, not really. "Common" on the Internet is a rare thing. Your best bets are
to stick with one of 3 that are indeed "common" -

Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif
Times New Roman
Courier

Note that the first is actually a combination of 3. Not all computers
support any of them. But if you put them together with commas, the computer
will use the first from the list that it has.

In fact, this can be done with any font. You can make a list of alternatives
as long as you like, so that you have a fallback.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Arial Rounded MT Bold is not common unless the user has MS Office/Office apps installed.

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[Paul S. Wolf]

I set my text as Arial Rounded MT Bold. It looks great on my computer. When
I look at it on other computers it shows up as Times New Roman. Any
suggestions on how to keep the text looking the way that I set it.

I agree with everything others have said, but when I read your note, I
thought of another possible cause for your problem.

If you set the text font by using the "default font" feature, all that
does is change the font as it's displayed on YOUR computer while in
Front Page. That's one "feature" I hope MS removes in the next
generation of website development programs, as it really is confusing to
most users. About the only use I can think for it is to assign some
really weird font as the default, so everything looks weird on your
screen. Then it's easy to see where explicit font assignments have been
made, and where they haven't.

To assign a font, so OTHERS will see it, you must explicitly assign a
font available on their computers, as others have described, in the HTML
using either CSS or the <font> tag.

 

[Guest]

Wow thanks for all the quick help. I changed all my text to Arial. It
looked good on my other laptop (that didn't look right before).

Thanks again

 

[Jon Spivey]

Just to expand on this a bit when choosing a font the first decision is
serif (with twiddly bits on the letters eg Times New Roman) or sans serif
(no twiddly bits eg Arial) then make a list starting with the font you
really want, then a PC alternative, then a mac alternative and if all else
fails serif or sans serif at the end. So you might have
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
or
font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Note that a font that's more than one word needs to be enclosed in quotes

 

[Murray]

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