Most websites specify fonts but the developer has to
take care to use only fonts that are likely to be installed
on a typical user's computer, though he can also specify
alternatives to his preferred choices that *may* be
available. In reality, he may include a fairly long list of
preferred and alternative fonts, in order of preference,
to take account of the likely environments to be found 
on a variety of computers running under different 
operating systems.

He should also specify generic font types to fall back to if 
none of his preferred fonts or alternatives is available. 
These generic font types are serif, san-serif and 
monospace.





On a Windows-based system, typical defaults for these 
types would be serif: Times New Roman; sans-serif: 
Arial; and monospaced: Courier New. However, these 
may vary and browsers allow the user to specify the 
use of other defaults. Of course, the user-specified 
alternatives must already be installed on the computer.

Although it is possible for the user to force a website to 
use fonts other those specified by the developer  -- or
their near equivalents -- this is generally not a good 
idea since it is likely to produce results that do not
resemble his carefully-considered intentions and in
extreme cases may actually render the layout of a page 
incomprehensible or illegible.







On Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 4:42 am, Jim Giglio wrote:

>

>Some pages define the font style and size; many don't.

>The font button is found by clicking TOOLS and then "Internet options" on the resulting 

>drop-down menu. The FONT button is near the bottom of the tabbed box that appears 

>next; it's just to the left of the ACCESSIBILITY button.

>

>Any way, found out by trial-and-error (a GOOGLE search on "font install" how to 
get 

>Rockwell into IE7; I only had to install the font according to the directions.

>

> 

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