how to use a downloaded font?

[dadamssg]

do i upload a font i've downloaded in my public_html directory and then point to it in my css?

 

font-family: fontfile.ttf;  

 

im not real sure of the extension of fonts either....doubt .ttf is right

[SuperBlue]

Browser support is very poor at the moment, you can (according to CSS2) use the @font-face selector to embed a font. Example:

 

@font-face {
    font-family: "Parisian BT";
    src: url("parisian.ttf");
}

But i don't know how well it will work in current browsers. So you cant really use downloaded, or home made fonts at the moment, there is however something called "Embedded OpenType Fonts", which can be used in MSIE.

 

See also: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/default.aspx

 

And the request made to w3c: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2008/01/

 

Embedded fonts likely won't be supported before CSS3 is standardized.

 

 

Note. PHP allows to render text with the desired font as images, i would however highly recommend to stay away from such techniques.

[mattal999]

There is a new way to do this with a Javascript tool called SIFR.

 

Read up about it: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/.

[SuperBlue]

In that case, i would consider images better. JavaScript just slows down the rendering of the page.

[Yesideez]

If coded properly you can write a small script to make your titles using TTF files by using the GD library.