I have a font i've downloaded, its a True Type Font. I'm developing my own portfolio website so i'd like to get it fairly high up in Google (i can do the SEO for it) but i'm wondering what options i have for using this font for menu items, headings, etc..i've checked out Cufon but they wont let me upload it because it wasn't valid. I'd rather not use Flash..what other options have i got?
FontSquirrel is the best font converter. The free service even creates the CSS for you.
http://fontsquirrel.com
I doubt you have online distribution rights for this font.
Fonts and SEO have nothing to do with each other. Page layout and proper HTML coding practices do.
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A web design company design website for me. However, it largely uses Google font Montserrat and Lato, which lead to totally 40 font files(about 1.4MB) to be loaded when users open my website. And based on GTMatrix, 82% data transfer and 56.1% requests are for font files, which slow down my website greatly.
Therefore, I want to find some web safe fonts to replace Montserrat and Lato, so that:
The replacement fonts should look similar to the original fonts.
The replacement fonts should be available in most of the visitors' systems.
It is better to use a font stack so that there will be fallback fonts if these new fonts are not available on the visitors' systems.
In this way, the browser does not need to load additional fonts when user visit my website.
So, firstly, I try to find fonts similar to Montserrat and Lato, I use the following website:
http://www.identifont.com/
It does bring out 30 fonts similar to Montserrat. I call it set A.
Based in the following references, there are no standard list of web safe fonts:
Web Safe fonts - What exactly does that mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web-safe_fonts
What I use is a list at https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp, this list seems looks fine. I call it set B.
Now I try to find a font in both set A and B, with Excel. I can find nothing.
So my question is:
Is there a better way to find web safe font alternative to a given font?
Since there are no font appear in both set A and B, I plan to use my eye to check the similar fonts manually, I wonder if there is an easier way to do that?
The list of "web safe" fonts is really small and none look like Montserrat or Lato.
I'd advise you to stick with the fonts your designer picked. You don't have to load all weights (maybe only regular?) and you can host them yourself and use font-display: swap; so the impact on load time is minimized. If that still isn't acceptable you'd have to pick something like Arial or Verdana for a sans-serif that works on both Mac & Windows.
You probably don't need to change the fonts entirely, but you should only be loading the font styles and weights you are using on your website rather than loading all weights and styles. For example, if you are only using 400 and 700 weights in Lato, untick all of the other weights in Google Fonts.
You could also look at font loaders to help with those initial load times, for example: https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader
During development, and until clients have signed off on fonts, I use the external embed links Google Fonts provides. This combined with a SASS variable for the font face declaration in CSS makes it really easy to change fonts project wide if necessary.
As part of the final process for putting a site live once everything has been approved, I will investigate those external embeds and download the actual .woff2 files (plus related CSS) and add them to my own site files. This reduces the site's reliance on external links and makes the whole project more self contained.
I've just checked the project I'm currently working on (which uses three fonts in a variety of weights). All of the font files combined only add up to ~160k - nowhere near your quoted 1.4mb. At this size, and given modern network speeds and browser caching, I see no issue using web fonts.
My advice would be to optimise how your site pulls in the fonts you want to use, rather than looking for system based alternatives. If you are not comfortable doing the optimisation work yourself, I would get back in touch with the developers and ask them to fix the issue.
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I want the web page only use web safe fonts
but these fonts are not beautiful.
since I want the page as consistent as possible to every user, I cannot use non safe fonts.
so I hope solution can be found in css
You may want to use #font-face rule. It allows loading custom typefaces.
I believe there is no other way to alter rendering of fonts using CSS.
The easiest and quickest (and cheapest) way of getting better looking fonts is through Google fonts http://www.google.com/webfonts/ However because they're free they're not always that great.
Alternatively for more professional fonts you can use a service such as https://typekit.com/ but this will cost you money.
A client needs to have Malgun as the font whenever hangul characters are present. I'm trying to find something to use in CSS that is close to it. I was thinking Verdana. Anyone else have a suggestion?
Verdana is also looking closer to Malgun, I think you should try google fonts http://www.google.com/webfonts
There are no "standard web-based fonts", only fonts that are more or less probable to be installed on the computer, where the browser is running. You may try to build a font-stack, that comes close to the one you want, e.g. the Verdana based font stack from this Sitepoint article, and then use font-loading methods like Google Webfonts to load your defined font for browsers that support loading fonts.
Do not try to give each visitor the same experience, but the best experience possible. Tell your customer, that a website is not a application that looks the same everywhere, but more like a TV program, that must be viewable from a black and white TV also, see this video.
Have you thought about using Fontsquirrel #font-face generator ? Also, for hangul, you might be interested in reading this.
I am very pleased with the Web Developer Toolbar and Colorzilla add-on. I like how I can use those features to easily detect the HTML structure and colors used in web pages. But in my search for a good CSS font detection tool, I haven't come across anything that works in a similar way. Does anyone know of something out there that I have missed?
I use a tool called WhatFont for this purpose
It shows various information about the font used in each DOM element, such as font family, color, size and even where the #font-face files are served from. It is available in the form of a bookmarklet or a Chrome add-on.
Is there a way to load typekit fonts dynamically, much like the Google Font API?
That is, how can I declare dynamically on each page the font name in a css link and load just the font(s) that are required for that page, instead of adding fonts into a kit and the loading the whole kit.
I have found a solution, posting it here in case it is useful for someone else:
I will use the Typekit API to dynamically create a new 'kit' (i.e. javascript file) for every different combination that my app requires, instead of including all of them in one big 'kit'.
See: https://typekit.com/docs/api/kits
Thanks anyway for your answers!
You could write a server side script that, depending on the page, will generate a different css file with the font-family rule(s) you wish.
Then you could use #import to bring this rule into your main css file.
TypeKit has recently introduced a way that users may find useful to perform functionality similar to what you are looking for but doing it in a very easy way without having to use the API. They call it Dynamic Subsetting.
As I write this it is only available for East Asian Fonts, however, there is a workaround to use it with other TypeKit fonts. The workaround comes from this site.
Add a East Asian Font such as Source Han Sans Japanese. This will automatically convert the kit to a dynamic kit.
Select each font and under the Character Set options choose Dynamic Subsetting for each font.
Remove the East Asian Font.
Publish Kit.
Even if you remove the East Asian Font, the kit will remain a Dynamic Kit.