Import Font

[deborahMac]

Hi
Can anyone tell me if its possible to import a font into Actinic, my client has decided that they would like the Product Headers to be Calibri or French Script!

thanks

Deborah

[leehack]

Fonts need to be on the systems on which they are viewed, it's not a case of importing them into Actinic. You could create your own font family (it's defined in the CSS) and if people had this font, it would be used, if not it would default to another. Messing too much with fonts is not advised though, there are only a handful of fonts that are cross browsered and it's not a good idea for people to have to download a font so they can see your site as you want them too.

[deborahMac]

thanks, I will try to explain this to my client

[deborahMac]

Hi again
Sorry to be a pest, but, as Calibri or French Script are standard fonts I want to add them to actinic. I haven't worked with the Actinic Style sheet and I'm not sure how to creat a "font family"
any help wold be appreciated

thanks

Deborah

[leehack]

The actinic stylesheet just works like any other CSS stylesheet Deborah, the only real difference is that quite a few of the values are derived from variables rather than just typed in. This then provides you with a dynamic stylesheet. There is a variable for font family in the design library, you can just add your new line (extra value) into there and it will appear in the drop down list in site options as the others do.

If you don't fancy doing that, then just manually type the family into the actinic stylesheet (drop down list on the design tab) and remove the variable, putting in your own font family, just like you would on any non-actinic site.

They are not standard fonts either, the web will tell you what are. By coincidence the ones you can choose in actinic are the standard fonts.

[RuralWeb]

Calibri or French Script are standard fonts

They are not browser safe fonts - the range of browser safe fonts are already installed in Actinic.

[deborahMac]

thanks guys, info much appreciated
Deborah

[CymraegKev]

A good article of which fonts are installed as standard on most Windows and Mac machines can be found here. As Lee and Malc said - stick with the safe fonts, or you could be daring and look at somthing like SifR

[Goz]

If you really want to do it you could try something like this in your CSS :

 
@font-face {
        font-family: "Castellar";
        src: url("http://www.yoursite.co.uk/acatalog/CASTELAR.TTF")
      }
#tagline {
text-align:center;
}
#tagline H1 { 
 font-family: "Castellar", serif;
 font-size:medium;
}

remembering to add the .TTF files to your additional files. Remember to test it on as many combos of OS and browser as poss - you can get some "interesting" results as not all browsers support this (but IE7 and FF seem to)!! Also add more fonts to the font-family i.e. the web safe fonts.

I use it sparingly and only for header tags where I used to use graphics.

HTH

[Paul Bulpit]

SifR

.............................. OMG!

[parklifeclothes]

You could create your own font family (it's defined in the CSS) and if people had this font, it would be used, if not it would default to another.

We used to use a odd font in our adverts and in every email proof it would change, it wasn't until i actually drove to the guys office I could see how it changed as he did not have this font installed yet as I had it installed on all my pc's it was fine, so be careful, there's little point in risking lost custom for the sake of some fancy writing.

[Jarvis]

Calibri is a ClearType font featured in Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac.
It is NOT installed widely other than on computers running the above.

French Script MT is a Microsoft font that can be purchased, but is NOT standard or widely used.

The following are the generally accepted 'Browser Safe' fonts.
(There are others like I M P A CT that should be but are not.)