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You may want to use fonts other than Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman or other fonts installed on most computers today. To implement special fonts on a web page, your choices are to either use images or embed the fonts.

Embedding a font is a very efficient and easy process, however browser support for doing so is still not widespread. The method converts a common True Type Font to the Embedded Open Type format which allows fonts to be downloaded and only used on specific web domains.

If you are interested in this subject, please visit the Spoono website to learn more. A tutorial is available there. You will also need a program called: WEFT. It is available at MicroSoft

Fonts used below are Lucida Handwriting
and Copperplate Gothic Light.

Only works in Internet Explorer and FireFox IE tabs.

Font embedding on the Web refers to the ability to embed fonts into web pages. This allows for more flexibility when deciding about what font to use, and is especially useful for web pages that use foreign characters that are not widely supported. However, embedding font necessarily increases the time a web site takes to load, and it is controversial because it can potentially allow copyrighted fonts to be freely proliferated through the web.

Bitstream developed TrueDoc, the first standard for embedding fonts. TrueDoc was natively supported in Netscape Navigator 4, but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6 and Mozilla because Netscape could not release Bitstream's source code. A WebFont Player plugin was available for Internet Explorer, but the technology had to compete against Microsoft's Embedded OpenType fonts natively supported by Internet Explorer 4 and up (Windows versions only).

For those not using Internet Explorer

Below is an image of how the Lucida Handwriting font and the Copperplate Gothic Light font are
being displayed when using Internet Explorer: