Sent by J.D. Welch on 20 January 2003 03:03
on 19 Jan Dianne Gronfors wrote:
DG >Hello all - working still on redoing my site in pure CSS. I have my home
DG >page working now but have decided to replace a graphic title with text
DG >instead. The graphic was made using Swiss 721 Blk BT with a drop shadow.
DG >Not a well supported font and I've discovered that drop shadows aren't
DG >possible with CSS (well, actually, I discovered that they are possible, it's
DG >just that no browser supports it yet). What supported font can give me the
DG >"weight" of Swiss? Or, how can I make a supported font look heavier? The
DG >bold, bolder doesn't seem to do what I want. Am I dreaming? Thanks.
hmm, don't mean to quash the all-css festivity, but i think you were on
the right track using a graphic header. since you want both a specific
font and an effect, it seems unlikely to get a satisfying result given
the variabilty of users' installed typefaces and spotty support for the
css drop shadow (how cool it is theoretically possible though!) method.
to your specific question: Swiss 721 and Helvetica are basically
identical
(http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/helvetica/familytree.html), so
the latter should be a great substitue, but of course that doesn't solve
the 'bold' vs 'black' issue.
i've not had any luck with the font-weight property either; even though
you can specify any of nine weights, i just get 'normal' and 'bold.' i
don't know if this is a function of browser css support or of my
installed fonts, but either way it doesn't seem reliable enough to count
on.
just curious: what's the objection to a graphic with a good alt tag?
-jd
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