Custom Fonts using @font-face in HTML/CSS

Farrukh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:44:12 +0000

One of my latest project involved @font-face which means using a custom font for your web content. It was my first experience working with @font-face as i never heard about it before so i thought i will share my experience with my readers.

As you know we cannot use custom fonts in a website as it will not be properly displayed on a computer which doesnt have these fonts installed, thus it will be replaced by system default fonts, in windows if a font is missing it is normally replaced by Times New Roman, so to avoid this we defint font like font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial is default for Windows, Helvetica is default for Mac. About Sans-serif I never used Mac personally so i am not sure if it is available on Mac or not but it is surely installed by default in Wondows. So this is the normal approac we follow so that we know how our website text will show up in different platforms.

960 Grid System

Farrukh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:21:25 +0000

A few days back one of my client asked me to get in touch with 960 Grid System. At first when i did some initial research on this grid system my conclusion was “total waste of time” because for a normal size page you need almost 8-12 hours to convert a Photoshop layered document into

Farrukh Saeed Introduction

Farrukh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:02:00 +0000

My name is Farrukh Saeed. I am 27 years old Web Designer, done my MS in Information Technology from Quaid-i-Azam University in 2007. After working for a US based organization for over 2 years i started my own Freelance Career planning on to extend my services to Web Designing as well as Web Development. Which

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Custom Fonts using @font-face in HTML/CSS

960 Grid System

Farrukh Saeed Introduction