Common Fonts

[whoahorse]

I am working on a new site and wondering if most computers

have Tempus Sans ITC in their font memory area?

 

If not, is there a code you can use to default to another font if the viewer

doesn't have this particular font?

 

Do you know what I mean?

 

Weezy

[TCH-Bruce]

Looks to be standard on Windows XP

[Pendragon]

I am working on a new site and wondering if most computers

have Tempus Sans ITC in their font memory area?

 

If not, is there a code you can use to default to another font if the viewer

doesn't have this particular font?

 

Do you know what I mean?

 

Weezy

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Here's what I have on changing fonts...

 

The font FACE tag was added by microsoft and is now part of html 3.2 (4.0 prefers the use of style sheets).

The FONT FACE tag will search the given font names one at a time, if can't find it any of the fonts listed, it will use the default font.

Some browsers may not support the tag and font names may vary from system to system, therefore changing the font should only be used as an optional presentation only feature, rather than one to be relied on in your pages.

[TCH-Don]

In your css file you can use font-family to list alternative fonts to be displayed,

if the one you want is not on their computer.

 

 

 

BODY {

 

font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC ", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

 

}

[TweezerMan]

Looks to be standard on Windows XP

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I must have missed a service pack on that one, because I do not have a Tempus Sans ITC font.

[Pendragon]

The font face tag does the same thing (if you don't want to use css)..

 

That font might be part of MS office... ?

[whoahorse]

Thanks you guys are all really so very helpful!

 

Weezy

[TweezerMan]

That font might be part of MS office...  ?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

According to the MS Typography web site, the Tempus Sans ITC font is installed with the following MS products:

Access 97 SR2, FrontPage 98, Greetings 99, Home Publishing 99, Office 2000 Premium, Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2, Office 97 SR1a, Office Professional Edition 2003, PhotoDraw 2000, Picture It! 2000, Picture It! 2002, Picture It! 98, Picture It! 99, Plus! 98, Publisher 2000, Publisher 97, Publisher 98, Works 2002

[TCH-Bruce]

According to the MS Typography web site, the Tempus Sans ITC font is installed with the following MS products:

Access 97 SR2, FrontPage 98, Greetings 99, Home Publishing 99, Office 2000 Premium, Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2, Office 97 SR1a, Office Professional Edition 2003, PhotoDraw 2000, Picture It! 2000, Picture It! 2002, Picture It! 98, Picture It! 99, Plus! 98, Publisher 2000, Publisher 97, Publisher 98, Works 2002

That explains it then. I have Office 2000.

[TCH-Don]

No sight of it here

[D.Slatk]

Well for an example you could do this:

><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Text</font>

 

If the user has verdana on their system, it'll use that. If not, it'll use arial. If not arial...etc. If you are going to set the font with style sheets, then it's best to place something such as sans-serif at the end in order to make sure you're getting something nearly all computers use. Nothing happens if you don't, it's just recommended.

 

If you are going to use the font style just a few times but not throughout the whole page, you could do something such as this:

>.style1 {
font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}

and then where you want to use that certain font on the page just do

><font class="style1">Text</font>

 

This might've been more than you were looking to find out though, but I hope it helps.

Edited April 16, 2005 by D.Slatk

[whoahorse]

Thanks for your help - that is great!

 

Weezy