RE: Fonts in web help

["Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Kevin-

This is usually done in the CSS (cascading stylesheet) file. Typically you use what's called a "font stack", which is just a comma-separated list of font names, such as this:

H1 {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-weight:bold;
}

This way, if the user's computer doesn't have the first listed font, it tries to display the next font, in order, down the chain. So, if the user doesn't have Verdana, it tries to display Tahoma, then Times New Roman, etc. If it can't find any of the fonts in your stack, it defaults to the standard serif font on the user's PC. It's recommended to list a standard font in your font stacks from each major operating system - Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. 

You could technically use the @font-face declaration to call your corporate font, but it involves a bit of effort and font conversion to work across all browsers. Adobe just this week announced support for some of their fonts with typekit.com, so if you're using an Adobe font for your corporate font, you may be in luck. http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2010/08/adobe-web-fonts-2.html

Hope this helps,
-=Ed.


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> With PDFs and other formats, you can let the end-user's computer
> supply a "reasonable" substitute for a font that you used to create a
> document, or you can embed (if allowed) the font, or you can embed
> just the characters that you actually use.
> 
> What's the approach when it's webbish stuff or WebHelp, and the new
> corporate font is not commonly available?
> 
> When I've occasionally done my own web pages, I've always used default
> fonts or I've outlined anything that needed to maintain a certain
> look, on the premise of "better safe than WingDings".  Current
> employer uses webhelp for some products.
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