Don't see how it could be any clearer Paul ...
:)
On 23/06/09 8:39 AM, "Paul Novitski" <p...@juniperwebcraft.com> wrote:
> At 6/22/2009 05:00 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:
>> hi.
>> well, the subject that i was taking, and the web page for pinciples of
>> visual design, my professor, said i have to had fonts, in the style sheet.
>> that was the requirmenet of this site i was doing for a fruit shop.
>
>
> Just as a reality check, let me go over how this works.
>
> You don't have to have any particular fonts on your own computer in
> order to designate them in a web page.
>
> You create a web page on your computer, upload it to the server, and
> after that each visitor who sees the page downloads it to their
> computer where it is displayed (rendered). It is the fonts installed
> on each visitor's computer that determine how the text will be
> displayed on their screens.
>
> If you specify font-families in the stylesheet, you're not DICTATING
> what font must appear, you're only SUGGESTING which fonts you'd like
> to appear. If a font you've requested isn't installed, it doesn't
> show up; that simple.
>
> If you use the stylesheet to ask that some text be rendered in a very
> common font such as Arial, it will be displayed in Arial on the vast
> majority of visitors' computers. If you use a more unusual font, only
> a small number of visitors might have that font and see it on the
> page. Everyone else will see your 2nd or 3rd choice font for that text.
>
> For example, if your stylesheet says:
>
> h1
> {
> font-family: "Gothic Rare", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
> }
>
> ...then the visitor's browser checks to see if it can find a match
> with any of the fonts in the list. "Gothic Rare" will not be found
> anywhere because I just made it up. Helvetica is far from universally
> installed, but Arial is extremely common so most people will see the
> text in Arial. If none of those three fonts is found, 'sans-serif'
> tells the browser to use whatever its default sans serif font is
> which might easily be different on every computer.
>
> A sans serif font is a font with no serifs. See also:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_serif
>
> Does that help clarify any of this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
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>
> Paul Novitski
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>
>
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