Font Compatibility

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  lodi360 · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 9:34 pm

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  The last time I looked, a designer needed to stay within a handful of fonts to assure compatibility with the font library of visitors. “Custom Design” offers many fonts that could be called esoteric, or at least specialty fonts. Does WordPress handle these fonts in some magical way or are we still bound to “universal” fonts as before? I think I should assume nothing has changed and we use fancy fonts that default to the visitor’s browser settings (which could be anything).

  Thanks,
  Keith

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 10:35 pm

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  No such restriction if you use Typekit, because the visitors’ font library isn’t involved: the fonts are hosted in Typekit’s servers and get embedded in your site.

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  lodi360 · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 10:40 pm

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  That’s good new info for me. Does the embed happen just once? … thus not slowing things down?

  Keith

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 10:58 pm

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  I don’t know about the “once” bit, but Typekit is incredibly fast. Check a fellow volunteer’s blog and judge for yourself:
  http://airodyssey.net/

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  airodyssey · Member · Jul 26, 2011 at 12:08 am

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  The first time you load a site with custom fonts, it may take just a second or two longer while your browser downloads the font file (which is about 100 – 200 KB?). After that, it stays in your cache memory temporarily (in the same fashion as images) and the loading time goes back to normal.

  And I feel honored that @panos gave my blog as an example ;-)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 26, 2011 at 12:32 am

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  I answered the latest “Guess” game too!