question to stylesheet - change of font type completely possible ?

[Andreas2003]

Hi there,

 

I have a question regarding stylesheets and the look of oscommerce.

 

I want to change the font type on my osc-site, that is used / shown in the users' browser.

 

For example the standard font type is VERDANA. And I want to change it to ARIAL.

 

Is that possible by uploading the new font type to my server? And only by changing the stylesheet to the new font type?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

Regards

Andreas

[rabbitseffort]

the font the user sees will depend on whether or not they have that font, arial is pretty safe and 99% of the people will have it., it is good to use 3, so if the user doesnt have the first one, then by defualt it will look for the other 2 in order. Hope this helps!

[innovationsuk]

the font the user sees will depend on whether or not they have that font, arial is pretty safe and 99% of the people will have it., it is good to use 3, so if the user doesnt have the first one, then by defualt it will look for the other 2 in order. Hope this helps!

 

Guys, how do i change the font for the whole site. I know its in the style sheet but what am i looking for. any help would be most appreciated

[ozcsys]

Guys, how do i change the font for the whole site. I know its in the style sheet but what am i looking for. any help would be most appreciated

 

There is not one class in the stylesheet that covers the whole site. You will need to change all the classes in the stylesheet to make them all the same.

[Andreas2003]

But you cannot change the complete font, as far as I have learned, from Verdanan to whatever font you like.

 

You can set the font size, or make it italic or bold, but thats all, if you want that your customers can read your site.

[Terry Mitchell]

the font the user sees will depend on whether or not they have that font, arial is pretty safe and 99% of the people will have it., it is good to use 3, so if the user doesnt have the first one, then by defualt it will look for the other 2 in order. Hope this helps!

 

I'm having the same problem,Is it not in any way possible to upload the font to the fonts folder on the server so the users browser reads it from there??

Thx

[Guest]

There is not one class in the stylesheet that covers the whole site. You will need to change all the classes in the stylesheet to make them all the same.

This is the answer. Open stylesheet.css and wherever you see a font name then change it but if the end user does not have that font installed on their pc then a default font will be used possibly destroying your layout.

 

I have found a page that explains how to embed a font in a web page 2 Second Google Search but it don't look easy.

 

Don't forget there are downsides. You are going to increase the time it takes each page to download and if you use too many different fonts or just use fonts that are too far from the ordinary you will put potential customers off.