Web Fonts

I made a website using a unique font that probobly not many people have. I figure that I have to upload it so I did. I uploaded it onto my site, but not in any directory. Will people see my site with the unique font or do I have to do something else?

 

No, they will not. And for the most part there is naff all you can do about it. Font embedding looked promising, but its support is patchy. That involved adding some code to link to the font file.

Is all the text using this font? If so, I would seriously reconsider using it. If its just headings, then I'd make the headings in an image editor (Photoshop, PSP, Paint even..), and use images instead. That way you KNOW that your font will be seen.

I recommend using a sans-serif font like Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial for your body text. Using a string of fonts helps you make your site predictable. For example, with CSS you might add

Code:

p { font-family:Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; }

to your <style> tag, which would make all p tags Verdana, if it couldn't find that Tahoma, if it couldn't find THAT a generic sans-serif font for that system.

 

I have seen some OLD sites that did something similar, but had a link on their page that said, download this font and install it into your fonts directory. Not sure if this is related here or not....

 

I agree with goldfish. The rule with web design is to use a font that is common across all platforms (generally anything that comes with the standard windows install....my favourite is Tahoma). It's also good to note that although these kind of fonts may seem boring to you they are readable. Alot of people struggle with fancy fonts so it's best to keep it as simple as possible, hell, look at the major geeks site... no fancy fonts but 100% usability