How to embed fonts in HTML

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I m trying to figure out a decent solution  especially from the SEO side  for embedding fonts in web pages  So far I have seen the W3C solution  which doesn t even work on Firefox  and this pretty cool solution  The second solution is for titles only  Is there a solution available for full text  I m tired of the standard fonts for web pages   Thanks

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I asked this a while back  The answer is basically that it doesn t work

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I asked this a while back  The answer is basically that it doesn t work

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No  there isn t a decent solution for body type  unless you re willing to cater only to those with bleeding-edge browsers   Microsoft has WEFT  their own proprietary font-embedding technology  but I haven t heard it talked about in years  and I know no one who uses it   I get by with sIFR for display type  headlines  titles of blog posts  etc   and using one of the less-worn-out web-safe fonts for body type  like Trebuchet MS   If you re bored with all the web-safe fonts  you re probably defining the term too narrowly      look at this matrix of stock fonts that ship with major OSes and chances are you ll be able to find a font cascade that will catch nearly all web users   For instance  font-family   Lucida Grande    Verdana   sans-serif is a common font cascade  OS X comes with Lucida Grande  but those with Windows will get Verdana  a web-safe font with letters of similar size and shape to Lucida Grande  Linux users will also get Verdana if they ve installed the web-safe fonts package that exists in most distros  package managers  or else they ll fall back to an ordinary sans-serif

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No  there isn t a decent solution for body type  unless you re willing to cater only to those with bleeding-edge browsers   Microsoft has WEFT  their own proprietary font-embedding technology  but I haven t heard it talked about in years  and I know no one who uses it   I get by with sIFR for display type  headlines  titles of blog posts  etc   and using one of the less-worn-out web-safe fonts for body type  like Trebuchet MS   If you re bored with all the web-safe fonts  you re probably defining the term too narrowly      look at this matrix of stock fonts that ship with major OSes and chances are you ll be able to find a font cascade that will catch nearly all web users   For instance  font-family   Lucida Grande    Verdana   sans-serif is a common font cascade  OS X comes with Lucida Grande  but those with Windows will get Verdana  a web-safe font with letters of similar size and shape to Lucida Grande  Linux users will also get Verdana if they ve installed the web-safe fonts package that exists in most distros  package managers  or else they ll fall back to an ordinary sans-serif

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Things have changed since this question was originally asked and answered  There s been a large amount of work done on getting cross-browser font embedding for body text to work using  font-face embedding  Paul Irish put together Bulletproof  font-face syntax combining attempts from multiple other people  If you actually go through the entire article  not just the top  it allows a single  font-face statement to cover IE  Firefox  Safari  Opera  Chrome and possibly others  Basically this can feed out OTF  EOT  SVG and WOFF in ways that don t break anything  Snipped from his article   font-face     font-family   Graublau Web     src  url  GraublauWeb eot      src  local  Graublau Web Regular    local  Graublau Web        url  quot GraublauWeb woff quot   format  quot woff quot        url  quot GraublauWeb otf quot   format  quot opentype quot        url  quot GraublauWeb svg grablau quot   format  quot svg quot       Working from that base  Font Squirrel put together a variety of useful tools including the  font-face Generator which allows you to upload a TTF or OTF file and get auto-converted font files for the other types  along with pre-built CSS and a demo HTML page  Font Squirrel also has Hundreds of  font-face kits  Soma Design also put together the FontFriend Bookmarklet  which redefines fonts on a page on the fly so you can try things out  It includes drag-and-drop  font-face support in FireFox 3 6   More recently  Google has started to provide the Google Web Fonts  an assortment of fonts available under an Open Source license and served from Google s servers  License Restrictions Finally  WebFonts info has put together a nice wiki d list of Fonts available for  font-face embedding based on licenses  It doesn t claim to be an exhaustive list  but fonts on it should be available  possibly with conditions such as an attribution in the CSS file  for embedding linking  It s important to read the licenses  because there are some limitations that aren t pushed forward obviously on the font downloads

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And it s unlikely too -- EOT is a fairly restrictive format that is supported only by IE   Both Safari 3 1 and Firefox 3 1  well the current alpha  and possibly Opera 9 6 support true type font  ttf  embedding  and at least Safari supports SVG fonts through the same mechanism   A list apart had a good discussion about this a while back

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Try Facetype js  you convert your  TTF font into a Javascript file  Full SEO compatible  supports FF  IE6 and Safari and degrades gracefully on other browsers

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Check out Typekit  a commercial option  they have a free package available too     It uses different techniques depending on which browser is being used   font-face vs  EOT format   and they take care of all the font licensing issues for you also   It supports everything down to IE6   Here s some more info about how Typekit works    http   forabeautifulweb com blog about first impressions of typekit http   www sitepoint com blogs 2009 06 01 web-fonts-get-real-with-typekit

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No  there isn t a decent solution for body type  unless you re willing to cater only to those with bleeding-edge browsers   Microsoft has WEFT  their own proprietary font-embedding technology  but I haven t heard it talked about in years  and I know no one who uses it   I get by with sIFR for display type  headlines  titles of blog posts  etc   and using one of the less-worn-out web-safe fonts for body type  like Trebuchet MS   If you re bored with all the web-safe fonts  you re probably defining the term too narrowly      look at this matrix of stock fonts that ship with major OSes and chances are you ll be able to find a font cascade that will catch nearly all web users   For instance  font-family   Lucida Grande    Verdana   sans-serif is a common font cascade  OS X comes with Lucida Grande  but those with Windows will get Verdana  a web-safe font with letters of similar size and shape to Lucida Grande  Linux users will also get Verdana if they ve installed the web-safe fonts package that exists in most distros  package managers  or else they ll fall back to an ordinary sans-serif

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I asked this a while back  The answer is basically that it doesn t work

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Things have changed since this question was originally asked and answered  There s been a large amount of work done on getting cross-browser font embedding for body text to work using  font-face embedding  Paul Irish put together Bulletproof  font-face syntax combining attempts from multiple other people  If you actually go through the entire article  not just the top  it allows a single  font-face statement to cover IE  Firefox  Safari  Opera  Chrome and possibly others  Basically this can feed out OTF  EOT  SVG and WOFF in ways that don t break anything  Snipped from his article   font-face     font-family   Graublau Web     src  url  GraublauWeb eot      src  local  Graublau Web Regular    local  Graublau Web        url  quot GraublauWeb woff quot   format  quot woff quot        url  quot GraublauWeb otf quot   format  quot opentype quot        url  quot GraublauWeb svg grablau quot   format  quot svg quot       Working from that base  Font Squirrel put together a variety of useful tools including the  font-face Generator which allows you to upload a TTF or OTF file and get auto-converted font files for the other types  along with pre-built CSS and a demo HTML page  Font Squirrel also has Hundreds of  font-face kits  Soma Design also put together the FontFriend Bookmarklet  which redefines fonts on a page on the fly so you can try things out  It includes drag-and-drop  font-face support in FireFox 3 6   More recently  Google has started to provide the Google Web Fonts  an assortment of fonts available under an Open Source license and served from Google s servers  License Restrictions Finally  WebFonts info has put together a nice wiki d list of Fonts available for  font-face embedding based on licenses  It doesn t claim to be an exhaustive list  but fonts on it should be available  possibly with conditions such as an attribution in the CSS file  for embedding linking  It s important to read the licenses  because there are some limitations that aren t pushed forward obviously on the font downloads

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I asked this a while back  The answer is basically that it doesn t work

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And it s unlikely too -- EOT is a fairly restrictive format that is supported only by IE   Both Safari 3 1 and Firefox 3 1  well the current alpha  and possibly Opera 9 6 support true type font  ttf  embedding  and at least Safari supports SVG fonts through the same mechanism   A list apart had a good discussion about this a while back

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Try Facetype js  you convert your  TTF font into a Javascript file  Full SEO compatible  supports FF  IE6 and Safari and degrades gracefully on other browsers

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No  there isn t a decent solution for body type  unless you re willing to cater only to those with bleeding-edge browsers   Microsoft has WEFT  their own proprietary font-embedding technology  but I haven t heard it talked about in years  and I know no one who uses it   I get by with sIFR for display type  headlines  titles of blog posts  etc   and using one of the less-worn-out web-safe fonts for body type  like Trebuchet MS   If you re bored with all the web-safe fonts  you re probably defining the term too narrowly      look at this matrix of stock fonts that ship with major OSes and chances are you ll be able to find a font cascade that will catch nearly all web users   For instance  font-family   Lucida Grande    Verdana   sans-serif is a common font cascade  OS X comes with Lucida Grande  but those with Windows will get Verdana  a web-safe font with letters of similar size and shape to Lucida Grande  Linux users will also get Verdana if they ve installed the web-safe fonts package that exists in most distros  package managers  or else they ll fall back to an ordinary sans-serif

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And it s unlikely too -- EOT is a fairly restrictive format that is supported only by IE   Both Safari 3 1 and Firefox 3 1  well the current alpha  and possibly Opera 9 6 support true type font  ttf  embedding  and at least Safari supports SVG fonts through the same mechanism   A list apart had a good discussion about this a while back

User · Answer

And it s unlikely too -- EOT is a fairly restrictive format that is supported only by IE   Both Safari 3 1 and Firefox 3 1  well the current alpha  and possibly Opera 9 6 support true type font  ttf  embedding  and at least Safari supports SVG fonts through the same mechanism   A list apart had a good discussion about this a while back

User · Answer

Check out Typekit  a commercial option  they have a free package available too     It uses different techniques depending on which browser is being used   font-face vs  EOT format   and they take care of all the font licensing issues for you also   It supports everything down to IE6   Here s some more info about how Typekit works    http   forabeautifulweb com blog about first impressions of typekit http   www sitepoint com blogs 2009 06 01 web-fonts-get-real-with-typekit

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