Submitted by: Don Gentry
In the earlier days a website or a web application had limited scope of using different kinds of fonts. The main fonts existing were the Times and Arial. And if you ever wanted to use fonts other than these, you required a flash player. Otherwise you would require the use of images in order to insert text in them; it gave rise to a lot of complications.
The other difficulties with images are that they are not semantic, you cannot translate them to any other language automatically, and their size can also be a major factor which since image size is generally larger than the size of the text. In addition to these the texts included in an image cannot be copied to the clipboard of the user, software s that can screen read also cannot detect them. To top it all even the search engines do not index them, which is a major setback.
But now times have changed and the numbers of hitches and glitches have reduced considerably. You now have the option of hundreds of web safe fonts to choose from. This has been possible due to the new set of web safe fonts launched by Google. With the help of these web safe fonts from Google you can choose any font(s) of your liking and use them in your website or blogs or even in web applications.
All you need to do is to choose the font and just insert the snippet consisting of CSS and HTML. The time required to do the whole thing is a mere 30seconds. And after that you will have your web page in nice and beautiful web fonts. These web fonts will also work to full effects in most of the popular web browsers around the globe. And the best part of using these web safe fonts is that they would spare you the task you were required to do by using flash player or using texts in images. Whereas these web safe fonts are nice and very easy to use.
A user s machine has mainly got fonts like Arial and Times installed in them to be used as references. But in case of the new wave fonts they are served by a browser request. This is very similar to that of an image request. What this means is that a user would be able to view the content in any font that you will use. Also the user would be able to do things with the text in these web fonts, which were previously only possible with that of Arial and Times.
The use of this new technology is very fast and rapid. Many web designers are shifting to the web safe fonts from the old ones. These fonts nowadays gets around 50 million requests on a daily basis. The number of websites that are using these fonts is about 800,000. That number is constantly on a rise.
In spite of the fact that these fonts have got some arresting looks but they also have got one problem. Using these fonts in your website can decrease the speed of your website. Since search engines rely a lot on the speed of websites for indexing, this can cause some problems. However since this is a very new technology it is better if we don t assess with aspects like speed. Cause speed is also bound to improve with further work in this matter. So make use of the new fascinating and stylish fonts. Beautify your website and make it much more expressive and you are sure to get more visitors with each passing day.
About the Author: Not only beauty, but the speed also matters a lot, especially following the latest Google algorithm change. Having web safe fonts can solve both of these purposes. Example of these web fonts is included in
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