I am using the font "Myriad Web Pro" in my website, www.shootcameraraw.com because I think it is easy to read. However, not all computers have this installed (Windows XP and Mac OSX do). Should I change the CSS, or keep it the same? Is there anyway to make the secondary font something like Arial? I don't want visitors who don't have the font to be greeted with an ugly times new roman.
I think you should change, unless you don't mind people leaving because they may not have that font. It usually a good rule of thumb to stick to a font you KNOW people have. Something like Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif.
agreed. it is better to use a known font for the web but setting arial as the secondary font will work too. Just in the CSS wherever you specify the font-family add a second font for example: body { font-family: Myriad Web Pro, Arial; } that way if the person doesnt have Myriad it will default to Arial then instead of Times new roman.
Good call. Obviously the best way and the way that I use with all my fonts even when using known ones. Don't know why I didn't post it.
My griend has a Illustrator MAC file in which he uses Arial fonts (regular, bold.). When he opens this file in Illustrator on A PC, text is recoded automatically. (for example some characters like "e" become "%". and he has to find and replace this characters to obtain a good text. Ithink, Helvetica fonts is good.