It's very easy to format text: just select it and choose the font you want to apply from the relative editor menu. This menu will display only a few fonts that can really be used: the so-called Safe fonts, which are those present on every device, such as Arial, Verdana, Georgia and a few others. What normally happens is that if you use a font that is installed on your computer but not on the computer of your website visitor, that computer will display the text with a default font, thus changing your original layout (see Safe fonts and web fonts).
There now exists a solution to this problem: use web fonts.
Web fonts may not be installed initially on your computer, but you can get them from:
▪ | portals such as Google Fonts™ (for free): they offer ready-to-use web fonts that are linked to the website page CSS stylesheets. |
▪ | portals such as Fontsquirrel: you can download new fonts to your computer, so that they can be published on the website's server. |
To use a web font, you must first obtain it from the Internet and then add it to WebSite X5.
Once you have done this, the new web font will appear in the list of available fonts that can be applied to the selected text.
The font names in the various menus have the following icons shown next to them, so that you always know what kind of font you are choosing:
The font types can be easily identified by the icon next to them:
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Google Fonts: fonts added from the Add web fonts window of WebSite X5 and linked to Google's server.
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Online Web Fonts: fonts added from the Add web fonts window of WebSite X5 and linked to server of service that offers fonts.
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Offline Web Fonts: fonts added from the Add web fonts window of WebSite X5 and published on the website's Internet server.
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