Embed a Font?

[MotherNatrsSon]

Is there a way to embed a font in your web page so that it gets used even if people do not have that particular font loaded on their machine?

MNS

[oracleguy]

http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/Typography/ss01.html

This should explain things for you.

[meow]

Netscape 6+/Moz and Opera don't support Web Fonts in any form. Netscape 4 used a technology developed by Bitstream that is pretty much dead and IIRC not free.

Leaves IE that actually uses CSS, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions , but requires the font to be in .eot format. MS provide a free converter that's a monster made by idiots for idiots but the actual embedding is a piece of cake once you have the .eot files.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/

Warning! Don't let Weft manhandle your documents. Feed it a document to chew, harvest the eot files and make necessary changes to your real documents yourself.

[MotherNatrsSon]

Thanks for all the info, but it sounds like it is definitely more of a pain that it is worth. Back to images with the "special" fonts.

MNS

[meow]

Frankly, I think Web Fonts have an undeserved bad rep. You can back your font up with any number of font-families for non supporting browsers just as usual. The font files aren't that big (typically 15-20 kB) and they are cached.

I can think of situations where a special font would be a nice touch even if it would be a pain if every site used embedded fonts.