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Fonts available for websites

  • 06-08-2009 9:18am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I'm a bit of a novice at web design btw.
    I want to add some fonts to my website. How would I get a list of all fonts available to me for my website and is it possible to add more?

    Thanks, Pete


Comments

  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Using text on a website, each individual visitor to your site must have the correct font, otherwise their browser will display the text in a default font. So even if you have a unusual, funky font on your machine, and can view the page locally and online perfectly - end users will not see that font.

    There's no definitive list of fonts that are installed on everyone's machine, but some of the obvious ones would be:

    Arial,
    Verdana,
    Tahoma,
    Helvetica,
    sans-serif,
    Courier,
    Times New Roman etc.

    If you must have text in special font, you can create an image with the text/header and place that in your site. But this won't your site any favours with search engines or users for that matter!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Peter B


    Dades wrote: »
    Using text on a website, each individual visitor to your site must have the correct font, otherwise their browser will display the text in a default font. So even if you have a unusual, funky font on your machine, and can view the page locally and online perfectly - end users will not see that font.

    There's no definitive list of fonts that are installed on everyone's machine, but some of the obvious ones would be:

    Arial,
    Verdana,
    Tahoma,
    Helvetica,
    sans-serif,
    Courier,
    Times New Roman etc.

    If you must have text in special font, you can create an image with the text/header and place that in your site. But this won't your site any favours with search engines or users for that matter!

    Very interesting. Thanks very much for that Dades. Great Help!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Don't use Times New Roman though, it's best suited for print - and I think it looks awful online.
    Dades wrote:
    If you must have text in special font, you can create an image with the text/header and place that in your site. But this won't your site any favours with search engines or users for that matter!

    There are ways around this, that are apparently search engine friendly.

    There is some JavaScript library that can swawp text for images.

    Or if you are just styling a <h1> tag, you can set a background image that contains the text of the <h1> and don't display the actual text contained within the tag. I don't think that's considered bad practise for SEO purposes, but not entirely sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭pts


    eoin wrote: »
    Don't use Times New Roman though, it's best suited for print - and I think it looks awful online.



    There are ways around this, that are apparently search engine friendly.

    There is some JavaScript library that can swawp text for images.

    Or if you are just styling a <h1> tag, you can set a background image that contains the text of the <h1> and don't display the actual text contained within the tag. I don't think that's considered bad practise for SEO purposes, but not entirely sure.

    This is true, if you're intersted in how to do it check out Nine Techniques for CSS Image Replacement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Pixelcraft


    Things are about to change quite soon regarding Typography on web sites. For the moment though, google 'font stacks' and use them creatively!


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