Helvetica Neue for Web?
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What's the easiest / cheapest way to get specifically "Helvetica Neue" as live type for one page of a website?
What service do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
- Nathan_Adams0
Well, all Macs have it, so the smartest would be to just do your font stack as font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif. Letting windows fallback to Arial (which, despite being Arial, will be better hinted on Windows than Helvetica would be, particularly for body copy)
If you must have Helvetica Neue in all instances, then fonts.com have it. http://www.fonts.com/font/linoty…
- PonyBoy0
embed them... gotta generate them first: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/font…
- ********0
All macs have Neue?
- never trust this... look into embedding fonts through fontssquirrel... you'll get a packet w/directions (I believe)PonyBoy
- Yes they all have it. It's part of the system appsmonospaced
- PonyBoy0
wait... you said 'live type'... you're not talking about this: http://www.apple.com/support/liv… ... are you?
- wait... no... you can't be talking about this... ... if you want to embed fonts... use that fontsquirrel kitPonyBoy
- ukit20
I would go with NathanAdams said...specify Helvetica Neue with Helvetica and Arial as a fallback. I've never seen any site embed Helvetica as a web font.
If you must embed, you'll probably need to purchase the webfont. Fontsquirrel will generate the files you need, but not the license. Would def not use that for a client project.
- ********0
Font squirrel is legal and free?
- yeah... they leave it to you to make sure you purchase the rights...PonyBoy
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- Nathan_Adams0
Most foundries don't allow for self-hosting (or they may require an additional licence to do so), which is what the Font Squirrel route entails. Check that they explicitly allow it (or email them and ask). Otherwise, stick with one of the font-hosting services.