[adamjw3]

if i have a design thats uses Helvetica Neue roman or Helvetica Neue in general how would you place this in the css would you use Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, arial? the design uses it for some body text and links wats the best way of doing it? i have attache a jpg

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[Wickham]

Have a look at this site which lists browser-safe fonts:-
http://www.ampsoft.n...wsMacFonts.html
Helvetica Neue isn't mentioned, so lots of people will never see it, so they will see your second choice or third.

If you use an uncommon font, you can either use it in selected places in images, or use a complicated method called sIFR which uses both javascript and flash, but even then people use that method only in a few places, not for text everywhere. http://www.mikeindus....com/blog/sifr/

[adamjw3]

Wickham, on Jun 27 2009, 21:16, said:

Have a look at this site which lists browser-safe fonts:-
http://www.ampsoft.n...wsMacFonts.html
Helvetica Neue isn't mentioned, so lots of people will never see it, so they will see your second choice or third.

If you use an uncommon font, you can either use it in selected places in images, or use a complicated method called sIFR which uses both javascript and flash, but even then people use that method only in a few places, not for text everywhere. http://www.mikeindus....com/blog/sifr/

this site is going to be cms based so i need them to be able to change the text in places that use Helvetica Neue. i'm really stuck can you help

[davep]

you'll have to stick with a common font. though you could specify that font as first in the list so it's available for those that have it. that's the way the web works

[mr-shock]

isn't there a way to have server side fonts? like upload the font the server and specifie the path in the font section of the css? i really dunno, be good if there was something like that so it loaded off the server instead of everyone having to install it.

[EDIT]

you may be in luck, i found this article on it.

http://www.webmaster...css/3198635.htm

This is a quote taken from the site, this should be all you will need i guess, test it and see if it works, i don't see why i wont. the difference is that it loads via the server instead of via the user.

Quote

you're going about it the wrong way: first import the font then reference it: 

@font-face {  
font-family: cmsy10;  
src: url(http://www.domain.com/font/cmsy10.ttf);
 } 

p {  
font-family: cmsy10, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; 
} 


This should work in Firefox, Opera and IE.