[pianotech] My Website

[paul bruesch]

Yes, currently a user has to have the font installed on his/her computer in
order to see it in the font you specify. There ARE ways to work around
that, but it's not simple and straightforward. There are new (suggested?)
standards that will (maybe) allow special, non-"standard" fonts to display
in a user's browser even if the font is not installed on the device... i.e.
it will download the font from the server for the purpose of displaying
that page or website. But I don't think that's the norm. Yet.

The other, more convoluted work-around is a server-side script (e.g. PHP)
which converts the text on the page to a graphic, using the font, which is
installed on the server. Like I said, convoluted work-around. It also
increases server overhead and slows page-serving. Not that most of our
sites get the kind of traffic that a target.com get!

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Richard W. Bushey
<rbushey4 at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> One additional reason to not go "hog wild" with specialty fonts is that,
> to my understanding, there are only a few families of fonts that are "web
> safe" fonts, meaning that most browsers can view them properly.  I tried
> downloading a new font that I used on my truck for advertising, but when I
> went to use it on my website, I found that even though it viewed great on
> my computer (because I had the font installed), that others were having
> issues viewing it.  Their computer reverted to some other font, like Times
> New Roman, or Arial, or something that it could deal with.
>
> Someone more knowledgeable than I could correct me on this if I'm wrong,
> but from what I understand, the person viewing your site must have the same
> font installed on their computer for your page to view correctly as you
> designed it. Times New Roman is likely to be installed on most if not all
> computers and is likely one of the safest to use.  If I download a cool new
> font, or I have a newer computer with nice neat new fonts on it...if I use
> one of those for my website, then the person viewing my website must also
> have that font installed on their computer already.  If they don't, then
> their computer has to fall back on something else.  The problem with that
> is that every font has different size and spacing issues, so when their
> computer converts it, it may mess up all the formatting on the page and
> your website looks like junk to them...text out of place, throws pictures
> out of line, etc, etc. So, it is best....from what I've heard and
> experienced, to stick with pretty common fonts that most everybody would
> have.
>
> I personally have used Arial for all sites I've build and have not had
> issues....that I know of anyway.
>
>
>
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