Re: Brief font question

After two years of software testing for IBM we found the only safe cross
platform font to use is New Times Roman! not even Arial is a safe cross
platform font. There are so many operating systems out there and browsers
it's very hard to please everyone! I wish the major companies would sit down
a deside on something. The same thing is happening now with Dynamic HTML. Oh
well what can you do! (charge the customer twice as much!) to compensate for
the extra effort.

Andrew Johnson
andrew@ajohnson
www.ajohnson.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Bean <PageMage(at)denver.net>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Monday, March 23, 1998 6:43 PM
Subject: Brief font question


>Hello, everyone.
> On designing my web page, I used a font called "copperplate gothic
>bold".  This angular font added to the effect, and it looked great on my
>home computer.  On a school computer, however, the font was simply
>plain, times new roman.  I assume that this is due to the fact that the
>school computer didn't have this font installed on it.
> My question is:
> Is this font or a similar one in wide enough use that I can put it on
>my page and expect most users to have it show up?  I have and idea of
>the more common fonts, but wasn't sure about this one (if you can't get
>it to show up, my title .gif is in made in this font.)  Any suggestions?
> Thanks for the help,
>--
>Colin Bean, Page Mage Enterprises
>mailto:PageMage(at)denver.net
>http://www.denver.net/~pagemage

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