This is not my site. This is an example of someone using something different than Web Safe Fonts!
Is this person paying huge amounts of money to have these fonts?
I don’t understand fonts. The ones I want to use are something like $450 a year to lease.
Can someone please explain fonts in websites? I get that some computers don’t have the fonts installed so when they go to my website the fonts convert to Times Roman, but this website clearly has different fonts and I can see them. They are not converted.
There are a lot of free “web” fonts out there, many from Google and others. All you need is to insert a stylesheet in the head of your page, and then name your font styles correctly, and you get to use them. There are some premium “real” fonts out there that you can lease for the year, as you have found. You install them the same way, by linking to a stylesheet and then naming your font correctly in your Freeway styles. There is an Action named Caxton that takes much of the drama out of this. Have a look for it at ActionsForge.
Walter
On Jul 30, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Bill email@hidden wrote:
This is not my site. This is an example of someone using something different than Web Safe Fonts!
Is this person paying huge amounts of money to have these fonts?
I don’t understand fonts. The ones I want to use are something like $450 a year to lease.
Can someone please explain fonts in websites? I get that some computers don’t have the fonts installed so when they go to my website the fonts convert to Times Roman, but this website clearly has different fonts and I can see them. They are not converted.
FONTs need to be treated as “resource” such as an image.
There are (to me) 3 (+ 1/2) different possibilities these days:
####The Default
Take em - they’re a just work, cause they’re coming alongside with every browser. I kept this up for a very long, long time. It is possible to do amazing typography with Helvetica or Trebuchet.
####Caxton and Webfont Action
They’re mostly used when a client wants to have “Futura” or “Frutiger” cause it’s her printing FONT. Never do this without having a “paid” web safe FONT-set. As above mentioned, a FONT is a resource and a resource has a copyright - namely the FONT designer. Those guys have to feed their families as well. And in all honesty:
There is NOOOO reason at all, using the same FONT for print and web.
But naturally, both actions can be used for free licensed FONTs as well.
The other way of pay
Services like Adobe Type Kit as already mentioned take a monthly fee. By the way my strongest argument for clients, that the “print” FONT isn’t the way to go!!!
####My preferred way these days
Google Webfonts. They’re free to use, have huge variations of nice FONTs (beside an incredible bunch of ugly ones). How to treat those in a Freeway surrounding, I once casted here (please note the other two excellent resources below the video):