Using Font Faces

Using different fonts on your pages

Note: These effects can now all be achieved using Cascading Style Sheets.

Well, if you have the desire to change the font type on your pages without using images, you can do it to some extent with the HTML font tag. You do this by adding the face=" " command to your font tag, like this:

<font face="Arial">Give me an Arial font!</font>

This would give you the Arial font:

Give me an Arial font!

However, there are some restrictions to this you will want to be aware of:

The people viewing your pages won't be able to see the new font unless they have version 3.0 or better of Netscape or Internet Explorer.
The viewer needs to have the font installed in their computer in order to see it.

Viewers without all the requirements will just see the standard Times New Roman font. So, here is a short list of some common fonts that you should be able to use in the face=" " command. Try a few from your own computer and see what happens...

Font Name	Sample Display
Arial	Arial Font
Arial Black	Arial Black Font
Courier	Courier Font
Courier New	Courier New Font
Modern	Modern Font
Terminal	Terminal Font
Symbol	Symbol Font

Well, now you can have all kinds of fonts! So, let's go to the next section, New Browser Windows.