Fonts
Sandvox has a Fonts panel to allow you to customize the font of any text that is in an editable block. e.g. a Text page, or the caption of a Photo.
To set the font of some text:
- Select the text.
- From the Format menu select "Show Fonts."
- Click the font you want to use.
You can also customize the toolbar to add a "Fonts" item to it.
Possible Issues
Non-standard fonts
Some care must be taken when choosing fonts. If a font you specify is not installed on a visitor's computer, then their browser will not be able to display it. Instead it will use an alternative font of its own choosing, which may look nothing like your original choice.
One easy way to avoid problems like these is simply to stick to the font used by your site's design; the designs in Sandvox have been built with these concerns in mind. If a visitor does not have the font of a particular design installed, Sandvox will direct the visitor's computer to the best, closest match.
If you want to change the fonts from a design, however, and you also want to make sure that most visitors will see the same font you've specified, try to stick to the standard fonts installed on virtually every Mac/Windows computer:
- Arial
- Arial Black
- Comic Sans MS
- Courier New
- Georgia
- Helvetica
- Impact
- Times New Roman
- Trebuchet MS
- Verdana
(For your convenience, Sandvox installs a font collection into your home directory called "Web-safe Mac/Windows" that contains these fonts.)
Also note that even some of these fonts might not be available on Windows 95 computers, which might be a concern for some users. For a complete list of the fonts included in each revision of Windows, please see this article.
(Note: if you are creating a website with the iPhone in mind, keep in mind that from this list, only Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, and Verdana are available.)
Italics
Some fonts do not have an italic version (for example, Lucida Grande). Thus, as in other applications such as TextEdit, in these fonts you won't be able to change a section of text to italic. To compensate, consider using another font (such as Helvetica) set as italic for that text.
