Fonts

force a font

[peten]

evening all

Is it possible to force a font ie the car club wants me to use the WRC font i certain areas of the web site but this is not a normal font that you finf on the (average joe's ) computer , is there a way i can force the upload of the font in the webpage in question .

It would be nice if there was but i have a feeling it is no

Pete .

[tangor]

There are a number of technologies available, some from monotype, google, even ms... but all have various drawbacks associated with them.

Embedding fonts can be accomplished with Weft [microsoft.com...]

[peten]

Ok thanks i will have to look at the Google method cant use the MS method no windows

Pete .

[phranque]

there is a lot of discussion about image replacement techniques for web text including some references to embedded font methods in this WebmasterWorld thread - accessibility and <h1> header images:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/accessibility_usability/3844966.htm [webmasterworld.com]

[lucy24]

You don't need MS or Windows to embed fonts. Most (not all) browsers support it. There are two pieces:

--the font file itself, placed online along with the images and css and so on

--a css declaration that includes an "at-rule" along with explicit font naming wherever you want to use it, for example

@font-face {font-family: Pigiarniq; src: url("images/Pigiarniq Regular.ttf");}

h1 {font-family: Pigiarniq;}

Caution: Font files can be Very Large-- often larger than all the equivalent image files put together. If you go this route, try to find a font-wrangling function (I used to have dozens but they all ran on Mac Classic OS :() that will let you delete everything except the basic alphanumerics, the characters that will be actually used in your text.

Font embedding was a lifesaver for me in iOS 4, which didn't come with Euphemia. (iOS 5 does, so I've been able to dispense with it.) But that was for body text, where images simply weren't an option.

[enigma1]

There are other technologies with javascript that allow you to do that. Custom font information for character curves, spaces etc can be converted to vml. There are some online services where you can generate the necessary js from. The main drawback -for some of them- is the copyright/license, but there are open source ones too.

[peten]

Hi All .

Thanks for the replies , I think i am going to go the image direction and convert things that MUST be in that strange font into .png files just means i got lots of conversions to do this year (no doubt the font will change for next year)

Thanks all Pete .