When I tried some of the Asian sites (for example http://www.asahi.com/) it displayed the fonts correctly. I did not install those Asian fonts in my PC. Where the browser is getting the fonts from? Is it always dynamically downloads the font from web server ?
How to implement this support in my web server - Should I generate some java script or so?
The fonts are installed on the browsers.
Though, it is possible to define custom fonts thanks to the #font-face technology (entirely in CSS).
Search for #font-face, Cufon fonts etc.
Cufon basically is a font-replacement technique that uses javascript and vector graphics to write fonts from a font file.
I can't find any sign that they specify the font family at all. Certainly the bulk of text is rendered in Times for me, which is the default.
Your default font just includes characters you didn't know it contained.
There are ways to use custom fonts but they aren't using any of them.
When defining the font using css rules, you can add a src attribute specifying a url to fetch the font from a remote location.
Try this link for more info.
Also check out Google Web Fonts, which can provide you with a selection of fonts relatively easily, by adding an appropriate link tag to the header of your page.
Your PC almost certainly does include fonts with many Asian characters. When the web page includes characters that are not supported by the default font (such as Times or Verdana) you're using, browsers will automatically find an alternative font and use that instead, so that you still get readable text.
For Firefox, at least, there's a "fontinfo" add-on you can use to determine what font is actually being used to display any given piece of text - as it may not be the default font, or the font requested by CSS.
Web sites can use various techniques (including libraries like cufon or typeface.js, though CSS #font-face is usually a better option now that it's widely supported) to provide custom fonts for their pages, but this is not necessary in order for Asian text (for example) to be displayed on a typical PC.
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I am using dynamic fonts (font-face) in an HTML page.
I have seen that sometimes, IExplorer users doesn't have have permission to download fonts. This is a choice of security settings.
Is it possible to detect using Javascript if the browser allows font downloads? In this case I could display an alert or I could use an alternative technique as Cufón.
Thanks!!!
This Web Font Loader will attach Events to your html tag.
Works very good for me.
I have some content on a web page that uses funny fonts to display correctly by using #font-face to use some custom fonts. I include a warning that it might not display correctly on all browsers. The content isn't really essential to the page, so what I'd really like to do instead is simply not show it if the browser isn't going to do it, due to browser version, script blocking, or whatever. Is there a way to do that?
Modernizr has this built-in. Here's a link to a build that just checks for #font-face support.
http://modernizr.com/download/#-fontface-shiv-cssclasses-teststyles-load
Then you can check in JS for Modernizr.fontface or in the css for .fontface { }.
Here's a fancy explanation of how to do it:
http://paulirish.com/2009/font-face-feature-detection/
To be clear you can pretty much support every browser with #font-face, except for some versions of Android.
http://caniuse.com/#search=font
Your bigger problem with #font-face isn't the basic support for #font-face, but support for the specific font file type, which is more limited. I personally suggest to use WOFF, which works in IE9+. Alternatively, if you use Typekit or Font-Squirrel you can pretty much support all browsers out of the box.
I know this is a common issue, but I haven't been able to solve this issue. I'm using Pictos webfont via tumblr as a CDN on this blog http://mrelliotb.tumblr.com/, however, in FF it does not render. I'm looking for a way to make it work and/or a way to detect the failure in rendering as to remove the extraneous letters that should be rendered.
Thanks in advance!
Check the comments on the accepted answer in this thread. It deals specifically with your problem:
CSS #font-face not working with Firefox, but working with Chrome and IE
In a nutshell, Firefox does not like the cross-domain hosting for the fonts, and you should base64 encode them directly in to the stylesheet
You can easily base64 encode your font by using this wizard and selecting advanced/Base64 encode.
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
from my browser, your font now is helvetics and not pictos web font. did you have some #font-face at your stylesheet? and second, if it is problem with firefox you just have to make sure your config at
option->content-> advance button at font -> make sure your the setting is allow the web render its own font
may this help
Say I have several .otf and .dfont font files that are used in PSD for web site design. Now I need to add those fonts into the HTML/CSS code. I know #font feature of CSS3 which does that. But I am sure that it would not work for older browsers? So what is the cross browser way of doing that?
Firstly, websites need not look alike in all the browsers (http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/). It is perfectly fine to not display these fonts in the older browsers. Just provide a fallback as #ThiefMaster mentioned.
In case , you insist on using the same fonts even for older browsers, you might have to rely on Cufon (http://cufon.shoqolate.com) for cross browser compatibility. Use a feature detection (using Modernizr) and conditionally load the Cufon library. Be warned that using Cufon on body text would make the page load slower.
PS: All IE versions support web font embedding.
You can use http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator to create a most-compatible CSS containing the various #font-face declarations.
Obviously there will be some old browsers not supporting it - for those you should specify a regular font when using the custom font, e.g. like this:
p { font-family: "your font", sans-serif; }
I'm using FontSquirrel's #font-face kit generator, and it works pretty well in my opinion.
Check it out at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
Shai
FontSquirrel didn't work for me. http://transfonter.org/, on the other hand, was perfect in order to transform DFONT to TTF.
What has changed browser wise, that people are using these funky font's w/o graphics by referencing .js files?
like typekit?
In modern browsers (firefox,chrome,safari) javascript create canvas element to create the font text
In Internet Explorer they use Computer Vision Markup Language
You can use the #font-face declaration to specify a custom font that the browser will render. Typekit uses js to make sure #font-face works across browsers.
You can read about implementing custom fonts here: http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/
like eyelidlessness mentioned, Font Squirrel is a great resource for this. Gives you tha markup and everything.