You have obtained this typeface software either directly from Monotype Imaging or together with software distributed by one of the licencees of Monotype Imaging.This software is a valuable asset of Monotype Imaging. And its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. Irresponsible web design is doing things like setting text as images without using alt text, not using interesting fonts in font sets.LicenseNOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENTThis typeface is the property of Monotype Imaging Inc. So most people don't have Gill – who cares? They get a perfectly good site regardless.Īnd this would be fine too, but a bit weird and lazy: Gill Sans This is good practice too: Gill Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif It's good practice precisely because it acknowledges that people will see different things. This is the whole point of font sets: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif They won't even wonder why you're using default fonts because they won't know that other people see anything different. There is nothing broken about suggesting fonts in your CSS that some users don't have they just see something different from you. It wouldn't matter if you did everyone would get something sensible that they could read easily, and the ones who need to can change the font to whatever they want anyway because it's just text and all major browsers let you customise the font you see regardless of the preferences of the site designer. I think this is rather missing the point. You should plan for how all users will see your site, not just for people using your own preferred setup. While my question was badly phrased, what I meant was that a designer should not make too many assumptions about what the client will have available. I do in fact always do this, and didn't mean to suggest that this was wrong. Update: As several people have pointed out, there's nothing wrong with providing a list of fallback fonts for people who don't have the specific font you use. Note that a responsible web developer does not use fonts that are only available on Windows (and especially ones that are only available on Vista), nor do they use a technology that isn't supported by at least the majority of browsers. Has anybody used this, or something similar? Is it supported by enough browsers? Am I missing a good solution? I remember reading long ago about TrueDoc, as a way of shipping fonts alongside a website - but it seems to have languished. The collection of fonts available to a web developer is depressingly limited.
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