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| Thread ID: 135432 | 2013-11-01 08:18:00 | script common to all OSs | John L. (5716) | Press F1 |
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| 1358475 | 2013-11-01 08:18:00 | Hi there, I have a website I'm working on. In the banner I use a flowing (handwriting type) script called "English111 Vivace BT". It is obviously not a common one to all OS's and so on many windows machines and on android tablets and on Iphone it default displays to a block type script. What flowing scripts are common to all Os's? . I could resort to a built JPG file I for my banner but I'd rather not if I can find a suitable script. John L. |
John L. (5716) | ||
| 1358476 | 2013-11-01 08:21:00 | Assuming you're talking about fonts, you may want to look at font embedding. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1358477 | 2013-11-01 18:37:00 | There are less than 12 fonts that are common to all computers and none of them are flowing although if you are wanting to use a fancy flowing font in your banner then embedding it would be the way to go. Your other option would be to build the website using the HTML5 standard as this caters for @fontface. Alternatively you could try using JavaScript to swap out the font on page load. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358478 | 2013-11-01 18:55:00 | Are you building the website as well or just the banner? | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358479 | 2013-11-01 19:24:00 | www.w3schools.com Otherwise, as mentioned, you'll either be building a JPG or embedding the font. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1358480 | 2013-11-01 19:45:00 | Try google fonts. Worked pretty well for me. | Nerdtastic (16693) | ||
| 1358481 | 2013-11-01 20:27:00 | Try google fonts. Worked pretty well for me. The font source is not the issue, the ability to display the font across all Browser types and computing platforms is the issue. If the website is built using XHTML then the designer will be restricted to a choice of approximately 12 fonts, none of which are Vivace BT. Websites built using HTML5 allow @fontface to be used (or Google fonts which does the same thing). @fontface allows the website to incorporate any particular web font that the designer sources from sites like Font Squirrel or Google fonts although those fonts won't work in browsers older than IE8. For older browsers, HTML5 has an browser detect message to advise users to update their browsers when IE8 or less is detected. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358482 | 2013-11-01 21:01:00 | although those fonts won't work in browsers older than IE8. People shouldn't be using anything older than IE9 anyway. :devil |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1358483 | 2013-11-01 22:14:00 | People shouldn't be using anything older than IE9 anyway. :devil You would be surprised how many people still use IE8. Most small businesses do. Front end web designers still have to account for IE8 when designing HTML5 sites. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358484 | 2013-11-01 22:18:00 | You would be surprised how many people still use IE8. The surprising thing is that I'm not surprised about that... |
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