Custom fonts using a TTF file

[fairestcape]

Bear in mind that if you choose to use exotic fonts, they will only render in a visitor's browser if that visitor has the font(s) installed.

So while your site may look 100% on YOUR computer, it may look like a dog's breakfast on someone else's machine.

At the end of the day, customers are at your site to buy products and get information about the products. While style is important to your corporate ID and branding, it's worth considering that the easier it is to read the information, the more likely you are to keep the customer satisfied - and make sales (which is the whole point, isn't it?).

[Merlinpa1969]

what about serving the fonts server side

[schoolboy]

what about serving the fonts server side

... a possibility... but there may be copyright issues at stake here. Unless the font is "freeware", serving it up to the public in the manner of a CSS call is infringement of copyright. Loading the .ttf onto your website and offering it for download will most often be a copyright infringement in itself.

A possible solution for using alternative fonts is one of the various sIFR methods, which entails dynamically switching standard text with Flash containing the required characters.

Forum member Robine seems to have had success here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118141