Hi guys,

I was wondering how you can use custom fonts on your website.. don't you need to put the font files into C:\WINDOWS\Fonts from your website-server? You can't access C:\WINDOWS\ on your server though. I was just wondering how people are using their downloaded fonts.

As far as i know, without using graphics, the visitor needs to have the font installed for them to be able to see it properly. If they dont have that specific font, it will just display their browsers default font.

One thing I know is, if you use Flash, you can use the fonts in your PC and you have the option to include font files when you export your flash movie.
But that creates huge .swf files.

Here is an article about this (http://www.actionscript.com/Article/tabid/54/ArticleID/using-shared-fonts/Default.aspx)

It says if you use 2 fonts and 2 weights, it will add approx 100kb to your swf files :eek:

Okay, thanks for your information/replies!

There is a proprietary way for including custom typefaces for Internet Explorer, but I don't have any info about it at the moment.

If you just want to use a custom font for things like headings, you might want to take a look at sIFR (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/). In your page, you use normal HTML for headings. You then write some Javascript so that sIFR replaces the text with flash applets, rendering text in your custom font. The applet uses ActionScript for rendering, so only one small applet is downloaded. sIFR is pretty fast, accessible, and easy to use for large sites.

there is actually a way you can do it via css, posted it long time ago in this side of the site, so try searching for fonts (posted by me).

Peace,

^ Agreed with this man.

Go here for fonts jabroo.com (http://www.jabroo.com)

Hi guys,

I was wondering how you can use custom fonts on your website.. don't you need to put the font files into C:\WINDOWS\Fonts from your website-server? You can't access C:\WINDOWS\ on your server though. I was just wondering how people are using their downloaded fonts.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

Using this method, you can display custom fonts on your website. But the downside is that the user has to have javascript enabled and flash player installed.
Files created are not huge, I personally never noticed any slowdown and my connection isn't anything special (512K) so I guess you will be safe to use it if you really want to.

If the font is for something core (like a logo typeface) then convert it to an image and display it, don't risk it with these font-replacement techniques.