Identifying Fonts

[Acorn]

Acorn: Thanks for the tips on finding the hidden letter or blank line of a non standard font. In my particular case it was the largest line of text on the page with a red glow shadow! It was the logo that I thought I had converted to bitmap...I hadn't.

I would keep the logo as Bookman Old Style as it is a Google Web Font and so will render in all modern browsers without any difficulty. It should appear faster on the page, make the page faster and not have jaggies. It will aid accessibility for those with visual difficulties.

Acorn

[Chris M]

You're right, it IS a web font. This leads to another question, why was it flagged as non standard? Which leads on to - what does non standard actually mean?

Done as suggested and changed back to the font itself, you got me with 'load faster'. I know we're talking fractions of seconds, but faster is faster and it all adds up.

You also put my mind at ease over web fonts and different browsers. It makes complete sense that web fonts are exactly what they appear to be, fonts for the web, but I have this little voice that that always says "well yeah...buuut"

[gwpriester]

I think Xara flags any font that is not one of the standard web fonts at appear at the very top of the menu drop down.

[Acorn]

Thee are web-safe fonts that are standard across all operating systems and platforms.These are therefore built into the browsers on the platform with recourse to any other on-line asset.
If these are not used, the collective term might be "non-standard".
We are talking about Arial, Helvetica, Times & TNR, Courier & C New, Verdana, Georgia, Palatino, Garamond, ...
If not available the browser picks the next best thing.
Not so goo for your finely-tuned website.

Web Fonts to the rescue.
These are "installed" into your web page on the fly with a small bit of code in the header.
Basically, this is a CSS font-family expression and the code is just a link to the web font.

Acorn