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I'm no expert with websites but do manage a small charity site. I'd like to use the Calibri font that ships with certain Microsoft products but not everyone is going to have it installed on their system. If I specify Calibri in my stylesheet what happens on systems without this font installed, can I specify a replacent (Arial is pretty common) or will the users' individual browsers/settings pick a replacement or use their 'default' font?
Microsoft do supply a [url=" http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx ]WEFT[/url] tool for font embedding, but it's old (and looks rather complicated) so I don't know whether it's worth exploring.
you basically specify a list and the browser starts at the left and works its way through until it finds one it recognizes:
ie:
p
{
font-family:"Times New Roman",Georgia,Serif;
}
[url= http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_font_font-family.asp ]info here[/url]
hope this makes sense.
Thanks for that, I'll have a play.
Don't do font-embedding - it doesn't work.
Put them in order of preference in the CSS as woffle says, finishing with [b]sans-serif[/b] as the last option.
Make sure your layout actually works with all of them.