![]() ![]() Their computer would search for ‘Trebuchet MS’ first – if that was not on their machine, then it would look for ‘Verdana’ and so on down the list. face: the person loading the site could see the text in 4 different typefaces.In this ‘old school’ example, anything situated between the and tags would follow these rules: Basically, your choice of fonts was very much limited if you wanted consistent display for all visitors (which incidentally, you do!). This was further compounded by the fact that ‘standard’ fonts on a Windows machine would not be identical to those installed on a Mac. This meant that, on the whole, sites had to use standard or ‘system fonts’ – those generally installed by default on computers at the point they were bought. This is because if you specify a font you have on your computer but your visitors don’t have that font, then your page would look different to them compared to what you were seeing. If you have not started learning CSS, then start at the beginning of our CSS3 Tutorials and then pop back here! Using Fonts: The ‘Old’ Wayīefore the era of being able to embed and use any font you want on your web pages, you had to think carefully before defining any given typeface on your web pages. Using HTML Fonts and Declarations (Correctly!)
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