Some mail servers do not accept attachments and they might consider embedded fonts as attachments. The drawback is that your email will be bigger because of the embedded font. Unfortunately, the solutions on that page didnt work for me as I still find the RTB uses another font after the CJK character. Otherwise your option will be limited to the generic sans, serif or monospace, and common named fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, Georgia, and a few more. Since 'Lucida Sans Unicode' has them all, why cant it stick to the one font I noticed someone else also has a similar problem: RichTextBox - retain original formatting (font), even after paste.
#SIMILAR FONT LUCIDA SANS UNICODE GOOGLE MAC OS#
Who knows he might even find another font that suits your website better.Īs for email, does your email client support font embedding? I do not know what is the EULA of fonts bundled with the Mac OS but if embedding is allowed, that is the best way to go so that your email recipient will see the email as it was formatted in your email client. Better ask your designer to choose a font that is somewhat similar to Futura from there so that your website will look almost the same in whatever platform your visitor is in.
Google will host/serve the webfont for free. If you are not willing to pay a subscription service then your best option is to use a font found in the Google Fonts archive ( ).
As your experience showed, it is possible that it is not installed in the computer of your visitor. It also is a close match for both upper and lowercase. I do not think it is advisable to use a font on your website that is supposed to be installed on a computer. Mayor's previous post's If you search at Google for 'Free true type. Roboto is another very popular sans-serif font available in the Google Fonts library. Here's a list of fonts bundled with Windows