Keeping Garamond as the Default Font

J

Jack

What happens if I make all of my web pages in Garamond and the viewer does
not have this font on their PC? It will default to arial or whatever they
have set in their browser, right? So, does anyone know if Garamond is a
windows default font that everyone would have automatically?

Sceond - How do I create a "backup font" if Garamond isn't on their system?
Are their any other fonts with a similar appearance that are universal? I
would rather use Times New Roman (which i think is 100% universal) than Arial
as a backup but I don't know if I can force it to do this.

I'm not using CSSs for now.

Thanks!
 
V

Vagabond Software

Jack said:
What happens if I make all of my web pages in Garamond and the viewer does
not have this font on their PC? It will default to arial or whatever they
have set in their browser, right? So, does anyone know if Garamond is a
windows default font that everyone would have automatically?

Sceond - How do I create a "backup font" if Garamond isn't on their system?
Are their any other fonts with a similar appearance that are universal? I
would rather use Times New Roman (which i think is 100% universal) than Arial
as a backup but I don't know if I can force it to do this.

I'm not using CSSs for now.

Thanks!
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Garamond is not on the default installation of Windows Server 2003. I can't say whether or not it comes with Windows XP by default at the moment.

I think you'll need CSS to specify a font choice order, though I'm very new to CSS myself. So, I may be mischaracterizing the font-family directive as a "font choice order", but I think it should be possible.

carl
 
M

Murray

Nope nope nope. Garamond is not a websafe font. Learn to love Verdana or
Georgia.

If you must use Garamond, then make a graphic - but that's bad form for many
other reasons.

--
Murray

Jack said:
What happens if I make all of my web pages in Garamond and the viewer does
not have this font on their PC? It will default to arial or whatever they
have set in their browser, right? So, does anyone know if Garamond is a
windows default font that everyone would have automatically?

Sceond - How do I create a "backup font" if Garamond isn't on their
system?
Are their any other fonts with a similar appearance that are universal? I
would rather use Times New Roman (which i think is 100% universal) than
Arial
as a backup but I don't know if I can force it to do this.

I'm not using CSSs for now.

Thanks!
Click to expand...

Garamond is not on the default installation of Windows Server 2003. I can't
say whether or not it comes with Windows XP by default at the moment.

I think you'll need CSS to specify a font choice order, though I'm very new
to CSS myself. So, I may be mischaracterizing the font-family directive as
a "font choice order", but I think it should be possible.

carl
 
J

Jack

Thank you - I will use Verdana. That font has the look I need. You just
saved me from having to redo like 20 pages. I'm on page 3 of 20.
 
M

Murray

Glad to help....

--
Murray

Jack said:
Thank you - I will use Verdana. That font has the look I need. You
just
saved me from having to redo like 20 pages. I'm on page 3 of 20.
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