Hi, I am struggling with fonts and would appreciate some pointers please. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a couple of boxes with ISPconfig on.

An old friend of mine is a graphic designer/copy writer etc took one look at my sites and laughed - very austere. He's come up with some funky designs incorporating 2 or 3 different (funky) fonts. I have performed a myriad of searches to find the killer tutorial to get the fonts I (think I) have installed to display properly.

I found Fontanello (Chrome add-on) which correctly identifies the font that I intended, but the font remains "Times New Roman" (that ain't funky!!)

If anyone has any insight they could give me or recommend a publication I would appreciate that very much.
Thanks in advance
Kevin

I hope that the problem is the fonts and not just CSS or HTML.
If so, understand @font-faces and all will be fine.

You need nothing but a dry and simple text editor. People who need additional software to enrich their HTML with fonts have not understood anything. Avoid them like the plague.

In the HTML/CSS tutorial of your choice, read about @font-faces and experiment with them, also by applying the rules to a published page. The file-path to your fonts is important and the notation may be non-intuitive to some. So you have to test locally *AND* after publication.

Another thing, but that is optional and for later: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=38192

P.S.:
Is he just styling or inventing content, too? I mean... does he “write stuff”? A Web-page may suffer terribly under too much styling and too few things to read.

P.P.S.:
Those “funky fonts” are hopefully not covered by a license agreement that prevents their use in Web-pages. If you must pay them, you should do that prior using any copyrighted or otherwise protected font. Use open-licensed (OFL) fonts instead (not to be confused with OpenType®).

Hi Michael,
i use vi as my editor and am running the "web site" on my local machine before installing it on the prod boxes.. Fontanello is a browser add-on and is only used to identify fonts post implementation. I shall check out your suggestions. Thanks K

Please show us what you have.
Please use CODE tags for code (see my signature).

Where and how you are you viewing your html pages?

Hi Ondoho,
Thank you for your reply. I am going to plough on Tuesday (3rd) to try and fix. If no success will come back with all the info you want.

Thanks again

K

Hi Ondoho,
Have gone very much back to basics and have styled a page with a fifferent font successfully now - thanks to W3Schools.
I have answered my own question. Thanks for the interest
regards
K

Believe it or not.
It would still be interesting to see, what you did and how you solved the problems. Many solutions may exist and alternatives are precious. Show us.

TIA

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Hi Michael,
seriously it was a syntax issue. CSS links etc. have to be exactly right, it's not forgiving at all.....
thanks all
K