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Using Unsafe Fonts for Web vunet 06-03-2008
Posted by vunet on June 3, 2008, 9:35 am
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 Hello,
I need a custom font, say Verlag, to be used for some headers of the
website. Can anyone recommend or direct me to a technique or hack to
use custom non-standard web-unsafe fonts? I do not want to use images
because I'd need too many of those. Of course, I 'd like to find a
cross-browser solution.
Thanks in advance.

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on June 3, 2008, 11:10 am
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 vunet wrote:
> Hello,
> I need a custom font, say Verlag, to be used for some headers of the
> website. Can anyone recommend or direct me to a technique or hack to
> use custom non-standard web-unsafe fonts?

Unsafe? You do not contract so disease you know if you select a odd
font, the users without specified font will just see an alternate. That
is why it is good practice to specify alternatives that are common and
related in characteristics.

> I do not want to use images
> because I'd need too many of those. Of course, I 'd like to find a
> cross-browser solution.
> Thanks in advance.

Images are really your only option, other than revising your design, as
Jukka loves to write "stop wanting this"


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Posted by Andy Dingley on June 3, 2008, 11:13 am
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> I need a custom font, say Verlag, to be used for some headers of the
> website. Can anyone recommend or direct me to a technique or hack to
> use custom non-standard web-unsafe fonts?

No. Sorry.

There just aren't any techniques out there that have "worthwhile"
levels of support and compatibility to recommend them for everyday
use.


sIFR is about the best (server-side rendering into Flash) if you
_MUST_ do this.
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

You could also look at Bitstream TrueDoc, M$oft WEFT and CSS 3 (ish),
for the future

Posted by Steve Swift on June 3, 2008, 11:39 am
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Andy Dingley wrote:
> There just aren't any techniques out there that have "worthwhile"
> levels of support and compatibility to recommend them for everyday

Well, you could use a table, or DIV's, with an image of each successive
character in each cell/div.

I'm sure that's what some sites must be doing (the ones where Opera says
it is downloading 90+ images... :-)

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Steve Swift
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Posted by dorayme on June 3, 2008, 7:31 pm
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> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > There just aren't any techniques out there that have "worthwhile"
> > levels of support and compatibility to recommend them for everyday
>
> Well, you could use a table, or DIV's, with an image of each successive
> character in each cell/div.

Why would you do that rather than the images just follow each other
inline or text done elsewhere and screenshot en masse?

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dorayme

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