Using a different font

Ryan_Sanders

Ok. I like this font called trebuchet ms. I think most computers have it.. but I don't know how to get it to go on my website. I have even uploaded the font. How can I call to a .ttf as my font?

notaloser

wrong forums buddy. fonts are all CSS. try out http://www.echoecho.com/ for what your looking for.

bradgrafelman

As notaloser explained, fonts are all about design and client-side stuff, so PHP has no control over that. This topic'll probably get moved down to ClientSide Technologies as the question you're asking really deals with HTML/CSS.

In reply to your problem, however, you can't use a .ttf file on your webserver to make a client understand the font. You can use PHP's GD library to generate an image with the font if you specify the .ttf file, I believe, but other than that (and some WEFT thing Microsoft makes - I don't really even think this is a suggestion, I never got it to work properly) the user must already have the font on his/her computer.

While Trebuchet MS is not listed on the page, you can visit this link to see how to use different font "faces" via HTML (though I don't believe it's XHTML compliant! :p).

JPnyc

No, he wants to know how to reference a font on the server. There is a way to do this that I've seen posted on webdeveloper.com, but I can't recall it now.

bradgrafelman

Hmm... I didn't think there was a way to do this. The only topic I found from Webdeveloper talked about using WEFT.

JPnyc

That might've been it, I don't remember. I manage 30 forums so remembering individual topics is a tall order.