font embed via css ? or alternative ?

[Necuno]

ok so i have this custom font, i see there are methods to embed via eot or that bitstream... just lol it doesn't seem to embed - is there alts or what should i be doing ?

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Why do you want to embed a custom font? Just use Arial!

 

[Necuno]

Why do you want to embed a custom font? Just use Arial!

what i wanted to know too, but you know marketing and their choice skills.

anyways just going to tell them go via the standard font range then....

 

[FarligOpptreden]

You're the technology expert - inform them of the consequences if a person doesn't have the font installed. Also, remember that a specific font installed on a client computer may be a different version to that of the font you intend on using (like there are many different versions of Arial, each differing slightly. My wife works in the DTP world - she should know). If they REALLY want the font to be present on the site, incorporate it into some images splashed through the pages, like consider making some static headings an image with that font. Just some suggestions...

 

[Necuno]

You're the technology expert - inform them of the consequences if a person doesn't have the font installed. Also, remember that a specific font installed on a client computer may be a different version to that of the font you intend on using (like there are many different versions of Arial, each differing slightly. My wife works in the DTP world - she should know). If they REALLY want the font to be present on the site, incorporate it into some images splashed through the pages, like consider making some static headings an image with that font. Just some suggestions...

yes i know, i would do that tomorrow .

i dont really want to go the image route, problem with that is i will have to imagefy everything as the original idea was to use the font as global. was interesting to look at the old was of doing this or "on the fly" text to image

anyways thanks for the input.

 

[kilobits]

Heyaa

Here you go... another alternative font replacement thingy, done on the fly,

http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/how-to-implement-sifr3-into-your-website/

Maybe a solution??

 

[FarligOpptreden]

yes i know, i would do that tomorrow .

i dont really want to go the image route, problem with that is i will have to imagefy everything as the original idea was to use the font as global. was interesting to look at the old was of doing this or "on the fly" text to image

anyways thanks for the input.

The "on the fly" text-to-image thing isn't a bad idea... Add an image for the title, store the text labels in some resource file in the solution (XML FTW! ) and just reference them with some ID / Key when you want to "render" the text label. Should be fun to do - I love playing around with images in .NET!