Embedding Fonts

juliegd1 · #1 Aug 30, 2009, 01:32 PM

I use a font called Andy extensively thhroughout my blog, thefamilyjules.com. I discovered my font issue when I accessed the site from a computer that didn't have the font installed. I found an embedded font solution that looks somewhat promising. Microsoft has a utility called WEFT (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx). It converts non-standard fonts to vector images and creates a font.eot file, in this case Andy.eot. Then "WEFT adds a STYLE section to the HEAD tag of each HTML page that uses one or more font object. The code added conforms to the current W3C CSS2 specification." The next step is for WEFT to replace all of the HTML pages with copies that incorporate the font code. I didn't do it because I was pretty certain that would be a mess. There is an option to copy and paste the code yourself. This is the code the utility generated:

http://thefamilyjules.com/?page_id=2

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

</STYLE>

I had to use the http://thefamilyjules.com/?page-id=2 when WEFT scanned the site for fonts because the main page kept crashing the utility. It still scanned and created the appropriate So I'm sure that lead site should actually be http://thefamilyjules.com/.

I can't find any place within the theme configuration where I can paste this code and have it work. Although the forum constantly references pasting html code into the documents, I can't figure out how to access them. Also, all of the theme templates that are editable are php files and don't appear to have any html in them anywhere.

I'm pretty certain that my noob status is apparent. I'm certain that this is a simple thing if you know what you're doing...I don't.

thoughts? suggestions?

I did make a modest donation as the theme is excellent and the forum is really useful. I promise to make a large donation once I'm working again.