Changing the font styles in website baker

[anthonypquinn]

Hi,
I am running website baker 2.8.1 and wanted to see whether there was a way of expanding the range of fonts from the standard defaults of Arial, Courier, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Verdana) to include other font styles that are available in Microsoft Word etc.?

Does anyone know if this is possible and if so how?  Is this functionality available in version 2.9 as it may require an upgrade to a later version?

Thanks in advance, much appreciated.

Thanks
Anthony

[Ruud]

This has nothing to do with WB versions (or any other CMS). The WYSIWYG editors will not (never) give you any other options than websafe fonts.

Technically you can declare any font you like in your HTML/CSS.
The problem is that your visitor must have the correct font installed on his/her computer. So when using Word-specific fonts, your visitor must have MS-Word (including the fonts) installed.

CSS uses a fallback mechanism for font-styles (only in CSS styles). Here you can tell the browser to prefer font-a and if it is not available use font-b, or font-family-c.
Search google for "websafe fonts" to find more explanation and lists of fonts you should be able to use without risk.

The are other projects like Google Webfonts and Cufon that will allow you to use other (free) fonts in your webpage.

[byteworker]

Take a closer Look at:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

These Fontface Kits are with full included Font files for all browsers. You can use your own Fonts by uploading and generating the Files. Easy to handle in your Template. I love this!

[DarkViper]

The fontface-generator is a nice toy for a single language site.
But mostly unusable on multilanguage sites. A small number of fonts only includes all the charsets you need for language depending special chars (i.e. turky, cyrillic, greece  a.s.o)