CSS - How Do I Use A Google Font?

Well, the title might be a little oversimplified, but I guess it caught your attention

In the past, I always set my font sizes using px. I know that this is not the appropriate standard (since it doesn't allow a user to re-size the font on their end), but I usually did it because it was easiest and most predictable.

Now, I finally want to make the step towards more accessibility and I would like to learn a little bit more about using em's appropriately.

Does anyone have any good advise on how to get started with the following questions: How/where do I set the initial font-size, from which I can use em's? What are the dangers of using em's instead of px? Where could this change impact my usual styling? Are there any good resources/tutorials about this?
Any help/suggestions/ideas are appreciated...

hi, someone using foxfire keeps saying the my font is really really tiny, I have my css file like: Code:

body { background: #FFFFFF;
/* for internet explorer */
scrollbar-face-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #494969; scrollbar-arrow-color: #494969; scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #494969; 
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-top: 1px solid #8E9397; border-left: 1px solid #8E9397; font-color: #494969; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; text-align: left; }

a:link,a:active,a:visited { color: #494969; text-decoration: none }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #494969; position: relative; top: -1px; left: -1px; }
hr { background: transparent; color: #494969; height: 1px; border-width: 0px; }
fieldset { margin: 0; padding: 1px; border: 1px solid #494969; }
legend { margin: 0; padding: 7px; color: #494969; background: transparent; font-weight: bold; }
img { border: 0px; }
table { background: transparent; }
tr { background: transparent; }
td { background: transparent; color: #494969; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 70%; }
input, textarea, select { color: #494969; font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background: transparent; border: 1px solid #494969; border-style: inset; text-align: center; text-indent: 2px; }

form { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }

any idea on whats wrong? and I would of changed the % to an actual value but I wanted to make it so people can control the size of the font to lager or smaller


here is a preview with that css file in use : http://www.dbznetwork.net/

Can someone please tell me what the font-stretch property within CSS does? I have been playing around with the following online example, but the way the text is rendered never changes.

[access the world wide web]w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_style_fontstretch

Could someone please tell me how to use the font-stretch property? I am just trying to see what it does.

Thank you!

People viewing my site at 120 dpi are seeing misaligned text and layout, whereas people viewing the site at 96dpi can see it properly.
I'm using "em" instead of pixels when setting font sizes in CSS.
The site has fixed length and width, do I HAVE to allow it to resize itself?

I'm making a site, and the guy I'm making it for says he wanted a more 'tough' font. So I downloaded a, 'tough' but still readable of course, font. The main page has an iframe, and the content in the iframe is where the text goes that has the tough font. Everything works when it's offline. But when I try uploading it, it's the old font. I even check the source and it's all old. The server is running extremely slow right now, so that might be the problem and it just hasn't uploaded yet or something. Because I also deleted the content files and refreshed the page and it was still old. So, I'll wait a little longer and check or something.

I also know that viewers can't see custom fonts if they don't have them on their pc. So this is kind of seeming pretty pointless. But is there ANYWAY I Can make it viewable to everyone that views the site. So they can see the font even if they don't have it on their pc. Like, make them have it temporarily or something. My friend told me it had something to do with CSS, but I don't really know. Anything I can do to make it work? Is there maybe a Java Script I can use?

i copied some of this code from a page i liked. all it is is a background image and i want to type text over it that is in a table. the problem is i cannot center my text ("<?=$information[nickName]?>"). the text always is on the left, never in the center. i have tried different things such as
<td align=center> as opposed to the <td valign=center> the other author has in the 2nd block, the align:center does not work with font. and i have tried appending a ;text-align:center within that SPAN tag, but that does not work either. does anyone have any advice??? thanks!

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="750" style="border: solid black 2px;">
<tr><td style="background-image:url(images/name_test.jpg); background-attachment: 100% 0%">

<table border="0" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1><TR><TD valign="center"><SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial black, helvetica; padding: 3px; align: center;"><?=$information[nickName]?></SPAN></TD></TR>
</table>

Hello,

I would like to know if a font can be imported into a CSS. I am asking that because it would be very nice if I had the opprtunity to design my webpage with the fonts that I want, in order to achieve the desirable layout.

Thank you.

I would like to set my site so that any text not given a specific class id for CSS will appear as a certain font.

can I do this, and if so, how?

thanks.

Hi guys
I've started this thread in this CSS forum, because I need to find a solution in CSS code.

I was given the following image. I must make same menu, using CSS. But this is not a problem. My problem is to find in css a real typography that mimics following image.



Does any1 know which css code and which font should I use ? The man who gave me that image doesn't know which font was used
Thanks a lot in advance

Is there any way to embed font so it would be viewable by firefox? I know yo can do it in IE, but can't find a way for firefox.

Thanks,

Greg

Hey everyone. I've been reading up on @font-face, and to me it seems like not many people are using this. Its more or less supported in all browsers (well, not ie 6) so was wondering if there is a reason no one is using this that I'm over looking?

If not it seems awesome, and I think it will make the designers here giddy with joy.

Hi,

Suppose I define a font-family with several fallbacks, for example:

Code:

font-family: "Georgia", "Liberation Serif", serif;

Now I would like to know which font did the browser effectively pick without me having to go through my system looking for which fonts are installed. When I inspect the text with tools such as Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar, they just give me the full font-family definition, but don't tell me the actual font being used...

Thank you in advance!
Jean

Hello,

My font shorthand have this different outputs on IE and FF

Quote:
h1 {
/*font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;*/
font: normal medium bold 16px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0 10px;
padding: 15px 0 5px 0;
color: #FFF;
}


If I replace the font-variant at shorthand it works well on IE but still the font size is not rendered

Quote:
font: normal larger bold 16px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;


the commented long hand is what I'm trying to get

I'm trying to write a website at the moment and I want to use <h1>/<h2> etc for the headings. Problem is though, the heading is going in to a blue bar and the font needs to be the right size. And naturally, IE and FF display the font in different sizes

How would I fix this problem so that the font renders the same size?

Could I make a hacked CSS class that only IE can see that I can apply to the <h1> tag to change the font-size to make it the same size as FF displays it as?

Whats the best way to fix font size?

I use CSS. The font size seems to stay fix on IE but not on Mozilla and Netscape.

Also I notice when I use adgui font it stay fix no matter in what browser and no matter at what text view. Why is that. Are there more of this kinda fonts?

Bottom line, whats the best way to fix the size of fonts regardless of browser and at what text view.

Thanks for you help
Liz