Smothing the font family
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Posted: Wed, 2008-05-07 11:38
I have the problem with the font interface. I had used different type of font but the problem is that font are not showing smoothly. So any want have any idea how to show font smoothly and I want to show the font on every computer even though they doesnot have font on there computer
font:bold 17px "Monotype Corsiva",Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif ; 
Monotype Corsiva font doesnot show smoothly in both borwser IE 6/Mozilla
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It would show lovely smooth
Posted: Wed, 2008-05-07 12:47
It would show lovely smooth on Safari because Macs make everything soft and fluffy.
The only way to guarantee everyone sees the font exactly the way you want it is to make it an image. I don't have that font on my computer at all. I would just get serif.
Windows has ClearType. You can play with the ClearType on your own computer but you can't change it on your visitors' computers.
I find FF and Opera to look the worst on my Windows machine. IE actually looks ok most of the time, and Safari the best. FF can't even make smooth borders using moz-border-radius!
You could also play with a bold italic Georgia instead, as that might look better (and reach more visitors).
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It would show lovely smooth
Posted: Fri, 2008-05-09 08:24
Thanks Stomme poes
Keeping into image format is not possible because I am implementing that font- family in the paragraph. I would prefer another idea. So that font doesnot look horrible.
Font are little bit handwriting type so I dont like to prefer another type of font as U suggested bold italic Georgia .
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Well
Posted: Fri, 2008-05-09 18:12
There is one last possiblity, but I can't do more than mention it. There's a technique called sifr where a combination of Flash and Javascript are used to cover your normal
text with the font in question. A popular right-wing student bloggity blog-blog type website which uses this technique is geenstijl.nl (the ugly pink letters are Flash). It's fairly robust, and for those folks without Flash and JS (inlcuding teh googles), there's still the normal, if not so pretty, text for them to read.
www.mikeindustries.com/sifr a bit more info, but I'd google it.
Of all the fonts I can think of who look flowy and like handwriting, they are not popular-enough fonts that your users will have installed regularly. There's a Mac font called Zapfino? which is f***ing gorgeous I think, though much crazier than Corsiva, but again if I wanted it on any website of mine I'd still end up with other fonts as defaults, since most of my visitors would not be using Macs.
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combination of Flash and Javascript
Posted: Sun, 2008-05-11 05:23
Thanks Stomme poes
Yeah I know that's the last and first option for mee. I denied to used such technique because I have to display such font in all the site content So it makes little bit trouble for mee. If I donot get another option I should go through it.
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