How can I specify fonts in my Web pages?
If you want others to view your web page with a specific font, the most appropriate way is to suggest the font rendering with a style sheet. Cascading Style Sheets use the font-family property to specify font faces. With HTML, the BASEFONT element can be used to suggest specific fonts for the entire document. With HTML, the FONT element can also be used to suggest specific fonts. The FONT element must be repeated inside every block-level element, since it can contain only inline (text-level) elements. Use of the FONT element brings numerous usability and accessibility problems. Whether specifying fonts with CSS or with HTML, authors run the risk that a reader’s system has a font by the same name but which is significantly different. For example, “Chicago” can be a nice text font, a display font with letters formed by “bullet holes”, or a novelty font containing images of city buildings (for creating skylines). Also, authors must either use fonts (or groups of similar fonts) that are co
