fallback font sizes

[adibranch]

evenin all :)

i have a site which has to use a lucida calligraphy font. As a fallback i've had to use monotype corsiva, followed by generic cursive.

The problem is that lucida calligraphy is a large font, and a 12px is equivalent to a 9px on the monotype corsiva. This means when most clients dont have lucida installed, the monotype is far far too small for the site.

Is there a way round it? either to set a fallback font size for the monotype, or to use em etc.

Thanks...

[DrDoc]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Step 1: Use a standard web font
Step 2: Optionally use a non-standard web font with the same size as standard web fonts

There are (ugly) ways of resizing the font using JavaScript, but that is not all that reliable (nor efficient). You should just try to avoid the problem altogether.

And, as a side note, do not use pixels for setting the font size. Use

%

or

em

so that the user is left in control over how big they really want the font to be.