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About Web Fonts

Web-safe Fonts

Unless included in images, the web browser displays fonts in a web site using fonts installed on the web visitor’s computer. Not all people viewing the site will have the same fonts.  A “web-safe” font is a font that is provided as standard on both Macs and PCs.  These are the only fonts that you can guarantee will display properly to all of your site visitors regardless of which platform or web browser they are using.  

With SiteCM, web-safe fonts are used with text that will be managed by the client: navigation titles, headings, and body font.  If you specify a non web-safe font if the web browser can’t find the font, it will pick a fallback font that might affect the integrity of your design and typography.

You can download a PDF showing all web-safe fonts from the SiteCM Reseller Site at http://resellers.sitecm.com/design/fonts.htm

Non-standard Fonts

With recent advances in Cascading Style Sheet technology, there is the ability to use non-standard web fonts on a website using the @font-face rule.  This eliminates the need to depend on a limited number of fonts users have installed on their computers by storing the font with the site files, and automatically loading it when users visit the web site.

View our page on Important Considerations to learn about the abilities of non-standard web fonts.