Fonts not showing up on web page

[NathanBWF]

So I'm using a font called 'BankGothic Md BT' on one page and it of course looks fine from my work PC when I look at it but how do I get other people to be able to see this font from their computers? Can it be done without having them download the font and placing it in their fonts folder? The funny thing is when I access the page from my home computer which has the same font installed it still doesn't show up. I've looked up embedded fonts but heard that way isn't the best when working with web pages. Anyone have a fix?

 

[earthman]

There is no fix. Embedded fonts create large files that make the page very slow, if they work. You should only use fonts that you KNOW everyone has, or that have equivalents, i.e. Arial, Times, etc. Those are generally the only two I use. They will show up on Macs and Linux systems too, usually. You'll find that many pro web pages don't really specify anything other than the color, size in pixels and serif or sans-serif for their fonts in text areas. You should specify sizes in pixels rather than points to avoid discepancies in displayed sizes on Windows and Mac systems. Your other option is to create the text block as a graphic element, but of course this adds more files to download. It's always a trade-off.