Hi people.

So, i am a print based designer who got a website layout job.

I understand NOTHING of web and i would need your help.

 

So, here goes my silly question:

 

-Can i use Helvetica neue 65 Medium as my font for the website? Or, is it silly because later viewers will have it swapped by their browsers to regular helvetica/arial?

It would be better if you didn't, to support older browsers, but if you do really want to, check out @font-face

Yes, you can, mate.

 

You can use @font-face or Cufon techniques to embed fonts you want into the page.

Yes, you can, mate.

 

You can use @font-face or Cufon techniques to embed fonts you want into the page.

 

I don't think the license for any of the desktop helvetica versions will permit online embedding.

 

Besides, Arial is close enough for most people, just set up a CSS font stack like

 

selector {
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

I don't think the license for any of the desktop helvetica versions will permit online embedding.

 

Well, if Bartolomeu asked about using this font as his own, he already bought it, didn't he?

Even if he purchased a desktop version it doesn't give him permission to use it on the web unless explicitly stated. It's silly (there are some desktop-only fonts I love), but that's the way the font EULAs go.

Dura lex, David .

Dura lex, David .

 

Haha, Indeed.

I don't think the license for any of the desktop helvetica versions will permit online embedding.

 

Besides, Arial is close enough for most people, just set up a CSS font stack like

 

selector {
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

 

 

 

So, would this mean that the browser would then pick up by order these typefaces?

Well, in any case, this is too much for me, i dont know, at all how to code, and all im doing is setting the psd file to give it to a coder.

So, to realy smplify, better if i use plain helvetica regular or myriad, right?

I hope i am not abusing, this is great!

Thanks to allll of u

So, to realy smplify, better if i use plain helvetica regular or myriad, right?

 

There are 9 absolutely web safe fonts and another half dozen or so that are close.

 

Arial is one of them, and Arial is pretty close to Helvetica (MicroSoft actually paid someone to copy it so they could avoid paying the license fee for whatever version of windows it was... 95?).

 

Just send the PSD over to your developer with Helvetica Neue and they should be able to set up a CSS font stack like I put above.

 

And yes, basically a CSS font stack instructs the browser to look for the first font and if it can't find it locally, move down the chain. Eventually, if it can't find any (which is unlikely with what I posted) it will find the first sans-serif font it can.

There are 9 absolutely web safe fonts and another half dozen or so that are close.

 

Arial is one of them, and Arial is pretty close to Helvetica (MicroSoft actually paid someone to copy it so they could avoid paying the license fee for whatever version of windows it was... 95?).

 

Just send the PSD over to your developer with Helvetica Neue and they should be able to set up a CSS font stack like I put above.

 

And yes, basically a CSS font stack instructs the browser to look for the first font and if it can't find it locally, move down the chain. Eventually, if it can't find any (which is unlikely with what I posted) it will find the first sans-serif font it can.

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I guess that most people visiting the website i am designing will be pc users, unrelated to design, therefore most of the times they will see it in arial. No point wasting time setting my text beautifully and increasing my web developer quote, if then only a small minority will se it in helvetica neue medium.

Thanks for your help and avalability. I love the web, and web communities, your time is precious to me.