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Website Font not on Users PC

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  • 15-06-2011 7:41pm
    #1
    pfurey101
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    A friend of mine is insisting on 2 fonts (Chaparral Pro and Myriad Pro) on his website. They are classy fonts OK but apart from me and him, I can't see too many people on the planet having these 2 fonts on their PC's.

    I dont want to switch text for flash or images, is there any other way to handle this scenario these days?

    The best thing that I can see (IMHO) is http://fontjazz.com/ and it looks OK. The source code for the Main Hedaer is straightforward and OK for SEO <h1>What's all this then?</h1>, while it displays a unique sort of font!! Anyone know of this package or even something else?

    Many thanks


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    #2
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    It can be done with javascript which is nice in that it will failover to the more common font in your css if they don't have javascript enabled.

    http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
    http://typeface.neocracy.org/

    I use typeface and no complaint with it really. Just be careful when using other similar items such as tooltips that they don't conflict. I've had weird canvas rendering issues when using both together. The text is selectable too and part of the page.

    Be warned tho an encoded font is going to be around 60kb to 180kb even if the javascript library is pretty small.

    There are also different hosted solutions provided by google http://www.google.com/webfonts but chances are the custom font your friend picked isn't in their library. I suppose the advantage of this is that it is provided on a cdn and there's a chance the vistors have already downloaded it on someone elses site.

    Another edit...lol you could look into CSS3 font-face. Have no experience of this but it looks pretty good.


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    pfurey101
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭pfurey101


    That was very quick Spunog - many thanks!

    Ill check out those links and the culprit fonts are not in the Google webfont listing.

    Cheers


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    Pixelcraft
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Pixelcraft


    The best way to do this when possible is via font embedding:

    Typekit has both
    http://typekit.com/fonts/myriad-pro
    http://typekit.com/fonts/chaparral-pro


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    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface looks like another good site to know.

    I might have to look into replacing the typeface javascript setup myself.


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