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Using a non-standard (PC, Mac) font on my webpage

I would like to use a non-standard (PC, Mac) font on my webpage.

I have two fonts: browa.oft & browa.eot. At present I can display the text correctly (on my machine) if pointing to the .oft font, but not the .eot, which I understand is the one I need to put onto our webserver.

There is a command called "font-face", but I have no clue as to how to put this into the html.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Jason C. Levine

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Brick-Tamland

You can create a font family in CSS that will attempts to use your non-standard font first if it exists on the user’s machine, then defaults to a standard font if it doesn’t. If you must have a specific font, save your text as an image first.

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Kyle Hamilton

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scrathcyboy

The first input is the basis for why this won't work. You either have to ask the average anonymous user to add the font to their system, then restart the browser, in which case the font will be found on their system by their browser ..... or you cannot do it. It is not practical for sites attracting many people to ask them to put your custom font on their system. They won't do it. Hence the only realistic choice is to use a graphic file to display that font. Then use a standard font for the rest of the text. Remember, the graphics are not seen by search engines as text, therefore not indexed as key words.

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Andy Brown

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Thank you everyone for all of your help on this - very much appreciated.