This is one of the most disappointing aspects
of the Web for transitioning print designers??”you must trust that
viewers have the fonts in which you want your document to be displayed
installed on their computers. Fonts aren??™t part of the browser;
they are served up for all applications on a computer from the
system software where they reside. Furthermore, it is impossible to
know what ?¬‚ avor of any given font (Times, Times Regular, or Times
Roman, for example) users might have on their computers.
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As much as you might want your Web pages??™ headlines to be displayed
in Univers 87 Oblique, the odds of a user having that particular
font are, to quote Elvis (Costello), ???less than zero.??? Even
Helvetica, perhaps the most popular sans-serif font of all time, is
not included with Windows, although Windows has its own almost
identical font, Microsoft Sans Serif. You can be certain, however,
that every computer has, at minimum, Times New Roman, Arial,
Verdana, and Courier, and any reasonably current computer almost
certainly has the fonts listed in Figure 3.6.
???What about automatically downloading fonts as needed from my
server to the user???? you ask. (You did ask, right?) Good question.
Although CSS3 speci?¬? es a way a browser can request a font from
your server in which to display the document, no browsers currently
support this capability.
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