Fonts in Html local file - css

Question

I have a problem when I choose a font in a CSS file. The font doesn't appear correctly in local HTML code.
#main_menu ul li
{
border-left:1px solid #dad8d8;
font-family:"arabic transparent";
font-size:16px;
padding: 0px 20px;
color: #e2001a;
list-style: none;
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
}
The font in the HTML file isn't like in the Photoshop design.

Answer 1

You better use #font-face from CSS3. Example from W3School:
#font-face
{
font-family: myFirstFont;
src: url('Sansation_Light.ttf'),
url('Sansation_Light.eot'); /* IE9+ */
}
div
{
font-family:myFirstFont;
}

Answer 2

You have to embbed the font
Use the following website for font generation
www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
#font-face {
font-family: 'YourFont';
src: url('YourFont.eot');
src: url('YourFont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('YourFont.woff') format('woff'),
url('YourFont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('YourFont.svg#YourFont') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

Answer 3

You cannot just use any font on the web/in HTML. You have something called web-safe fonts and can add custom ones manual.
Check FontSquirrel for conversion techniques: http://www.fontsquirrel.com
If a font is on your local machine, it "can" work if the browser tries to look for it, but you can't rely on it as most other users that visit your website won't have it on theirs, making the font fallback to Arial or an alike default font.
Font-squirrel will give you these formats (name is an example);
arabic.eot
arabic.svg
arabic.ttf
arabic.woff
With all these included all major browsers should be able to read your custom font with the #font-face property:
#font-face {
font-family: 'arabic transparent';
src: url('arabic.eot');
src: url('arabic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('arabic.woff') format('woff'),
url('arabic.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('arabic.svg#arabic_transparent') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#main_menu ul li {
font-family: 'arabic transparent';
}