Font issue

[xxarmoxx]

The project I have been working on is using the 'Cooper' font. I have noticed that the 'Cooper' font is not installed on a few of the computers I have tested the site on. What can I do to insure that the webpage is viewed the way I intended it to be viewed? Is there a work around to this issue? or do I need to use a pre-installed font?

[Nightwalker83]

If the font is essential to the site I suggest using a font common to all systems. I'm not sure if it is worth people downloading the font just to view the site or not.

I know what you wanted to sounded familiar. I wrote a report on this about a year ago. Here s a snipet:

WEFT (Open Type)
Web Embedded Font Tool was developed by Microsoft!
This technology works by embedding selected fonts into a site. You need to have the fonts you want to embed in the website on your computer first in order to embed them using WEFT.
How the technology works

In-order to use WEFT you will need to upload the entire website with the cascading style sheet included and declaring each font you want to use.
WEFT scans the whole website and determines which fonts are being used, it then asks you to select which fonts you want to use for each different paragraph and so on. You can choose different fonts for each individual character too. WEFT then takes the locally stored fonts you choose on your computer and embeds them into the web page. Fonts can only be embedded into pages that are located on the client machine not on the hosting server.
Once the fonts are embedded in you website you can call them using;
<!--
@font-face {
font-family: dungeon;
src: url(fontdir/dungeon.eot);
}
-->
In the header of each page directing the url to the location where the css file is stored.

I am not saying you should do this it just sounds like what you are wanting to achieve.

[xxarmoxx]

I think im just going to change the font. Is Comic Sans MS a websafe font?

[Nightwalker83]

I think im just going to change the font. Is Comic Sans MS a websafe font?

Yes, here is a list of websafe fonts:

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

[xxarmoxx]

Cool thanks.