Want to use "Tempus Sans ITC" (True-Type Font)

Dan

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Jan 12, 2002, 12:26:08 PM1/12/02

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Hi;
I want to be able to use "Tempus Sans ITC" (True-Type Font) in a web page...
The problem is that many computers don't have this FONT, and they substitute
it and it looks like crap.

I know there is the FONT FACE tag that allows you to list the substitutions
in order... ie if the computer doesn't have this... than use this... and so
on!
I want to use "Tempus Sans ITC" (True-Type Font) exclusively... not use any
other FONT substitution??

Is there anyway to have FONTS that a web designer wants to work with in
there web-page "stick" so to speak and not be substituted for what the
audiences browsers want to use or what other computers may not have in the
area of FONTS?

It looks like Cascading Style Sheets CSS are not he answer either from what
I've seen... I would have thought with CSS you could have the FONT, in this
case "Tempus Sans ITC" utilized by having it on the web server where your
site is and the appropriate code for it to render or point to?

Thanks
dano

brucie

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Jan 12, 2002, 2:54:29 PM1/12/02

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In post <Pk_%7.12517$Vq.80423@rwcrnsc53>,
Dan said...

> I want to be able to use "Tempus Sans ITC" (True-Type Font) in a web page...
> The problem is that many computers don't have this FONT, and they substitute
> it and it looks like crap.

if the fonts licence allows it ask your visitors to download it but very
few people will bother.

you may find a comparable dynamic font here:
http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/intro/index.html you could use but the
visitors browser may not support dynamic fonts.

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brucie

Don McCahill

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Jan 12, 2002, 6:08:21 PM1/12/02

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Dan wrote:

The only failsafe way to do this is to make a GIF of the file containing the
font. Of course, then search engines can't evaluate your page, and a lot of
other nasty things happen.

The reason you cannot do what you want (put the font on the server) is because
many fonts, including Tempus Sans ITC are copyright, and the copyright owners
would not like you to share the font with the world.

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Don McCahill
Internet Graphic Design
Westervelt College
London, Canada

Dano

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Jan 13, 2002, 12:41:20 PM1/13/02

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Well,
Than I wonder is there a site or table of some sort that one can use to base
there FONT selection off of in which you can know for sure that the FONT you
have selected in your page will be available for all users/browser?

Thanks for the responses back to my posting...

Dan

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Dano

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Jan 13, 2002, 12:54:48 PM1/13/02

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Well,
Than I wonder is there a site or table of some sort that one can use to base
there FONT selection off of in which you can know for sure that the FONT you
have selected in your page will be available for all users/browser?

Thanks for the responses back to my posting...

Dan

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PeterMcC

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Jan 13, 2002, 3:32:47 PM1/13/02

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> Well,
> Than I wonder is there a site or table of some sort that one can use to
base
> there FONT selection off of in which you can know for sure that the FONT
you
> have selected in your page will be available for all users/browser?

<snip>

There was some discussion recently and the consensus was that there is a
*very* limited range of fonts that can be presumed present. It's easy enough
with a win/ie set up to make a calculated guess based on the standard fonts
distributed by MS but once you start into other platforms and OSs it gets
tricky.

ISTR that Times and Arial were considered more or less universal but I would
advocate that, whatever decisions you make, you use a generic font family
such as serif or sans serif as the last font in your font definition.

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brucie

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Jan 13, 2002, 6:08:43 PM1/13/02

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In post <4Fj08.19661$uA.1...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>,
Dano said...

> Than I wonder is there a site or table of some sort that one can use to base
> there FONT selection off of in which you can know for sure that the FONT you
> have selected in your page will be available for all users/browser?

reference point to the most common fonts available pre-installed on Web
users' computers
http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/

web font basics:
http://www.efuse.com/Design/web_fonts_basics.html

Windows default fonts
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/fonts.html

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John McGaw

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Jan 21, 2002, 7:27:10 PM1/21/02

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In theory, one can embed a font directly into a web page. IF the font is
licensed for this, and IF the browser supports it, and IF it is in or
convertable to a supported font format. Check out:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/

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