Posts Tagged ‘Web-Safe Fonts’

#1399: Using CSS Image Replacement for Non Web-Safe Fonts

Posted: October 8, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 473 views // View Comments
Using CSS Image Replacement for Non Web-Safe Fonts
CSS Image Replacement can be a great way to utilize non web-safe fonts in your designs, while not hurting your SEO.

If you’re a designer, you’ve run into the issue of web-safe fonts in your designs before. If you’re not a designer, then you might be wonder just what IS a web-safe font?

Web-safe fonts are those fonts likely to be present on a wide range of computer systems, and are used by web content authors to increase the chance that content will be displayed in their chosen font. If a visitor to a website does not have the specified font, their browser will select an alternative — in the case of dingbat typefaces the alternative is unlikely to have similar…

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