Member jay… Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform To @font-face or not to @font-face... I am designing a CSS for a site I am building and was going to just designate the type to be serif (Georgia, Times etc). The I thought about using their typeface instead. The face is Casablanca Antique and it is a Corel font from 1992. I have no idea where I got it from but it appears to be distributed widely for free (I know I did not buy it). I have not done web in a long time and am not sure of the pros/cons of using @font-face. Can anyone please advise? Thanks, Jay Link to comment
Member Ral… Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 You can't use the font since it's commercial font that doesn't allow @font-face linking. Here is a list of fonts available font @font-face linking:http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=Fonts_available_for_%40font-fa... Link to comment
Member jay… Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 Thanks Ralf. I will look through the list to see if there's an appropriate substitution. I guess I will have to use the good old-fashioned image headers. Link to comment
Member Aa… Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Another possible solution is to use the more standard font-family CSS tag in a more creative way. See this article: http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/ This may not help you with this specific issue, since Casablanca Antique will not be on many systems, but it may allow you to cycle through a greater array of viable options. Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Alternately you could locate a genuine freeware font and ask the designer for permission. Cheers, Si Link to comment
Member jay… Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Cheers Aa, I actually read that article by chance a few days ago - think it was on 24ways.org. It is good but it's real hard to find a common face for both mac and pc. Link to comment
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