typeface.js
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Converting font to Bold
Karl Courtney
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5 May 2010 6:39
Hi 

I'm using a font on my website with this method and it works really great, but in certain parts i need to have a bold heading with the font i want to use.

So when i convert the font i want to use with the converting tool i only get a regular format, which when i apply a font-weight the typeface.js doesn't work at all.

so can someone tell me how i can make a bold version of my font for typeface.js

Cheers
Paul Farrell
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5 May 2010 10:37
I'm no programmer, more a typographer making his first tentative steps in online so forgive me if this is incorrect.

A single font is just that - a single font, in a single weight; be it regular, bold, semi-bold, italic, whatever. So by converting a single font using the converting tool on this website, you will be able to use that font within your website. If you require multiple weights or italics of you font, you will need to convert these also, creating new [fontname].js files for each weight which you will then be able to use independantly of each other.

Hopefully this is of use.

Paul
Nick
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10 May 2010 15:37
Here a link to a page which has several fonts but displays differently in different versions of IE
Bold and Italic display sub-script, I haven't added additional faces of each font yet.

http://nwsignatureevents.com/font.php
Karl Courtney
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12 May 2010 15:12
Hey Paul

Yeah you were right, you need to add the different versions of each font for it to work e.g. "bold, regular". and the font i used didn't have this so i changed to a font similar to the one i was originally going to use.

and Nick, Genius idea! I never thought of using strong tags to bold my headers, but if it is gonna cause me problems with IE i think I'll pass until my next job and I'll try it then.

Cheers guys
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