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Hi !

I'd like my site to use font-family Century Gothic. It works OK on my computer, but not on some others. Could you know why ?

* { margin:0; padding:0; line-height:3ex; font-family:'Century Gothic', 'Geo Sans Light'; }

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Not all fonts are installed

Not all fonts are installed on all browsers/computers. For example, mine does not recognize that font I do have two Century fonts, but not the gothic. In that case, the browser tries to pick a similar, but available font family.

That's one of the reasons it's a not-good idea to stray far from the tried and true default font stacks. When specifying the font, set the one you want, then a fallback choice and finally specify the user's default.

gary

If your web page is as clever as you can make it, it's probably too clever for you to debug or maintain.