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Unfortunately, there is not much control over fonts on the web. Your font choices are limited to the most common fonts that are installed on your visitors' computers. You see, a web browser—like Internet Explorer and FireFox —will look on your visitor's computer to see if the font you used on your site is installed on that computer. If it is not, it will use the default font that is specified in their browser.
An effective website is one that uses common fonts and specifies what font to display on the web page. This is done by using font sets. For example, a font set may include the following fonts: Arial, Helvetica, sans serif. This means that the browser will first look for the font, Arial. If it does not find Arial, then it will look for Helvetica. If neither of those fonts are installed on the visitor's computer, the browser will display another sans serif font that is installed.
Another way to use a specific font on a website, is to use the type as a graphic as shown in the example on this page. A web designer will use an illustration program to convert the type to paths to make a graphic. This is recommended only for headlines and buttons—not for body text because it will be too difficult to read.
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