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Use an Adobe Edge web font

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Use an Adobe Edge web font

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- [Instructor] For many years, web designers were limited in the range of fonts they could use for styling text because browsers relied on what was installed on the user's computer or mobile device. If you wanted to use a special font, you had to embed the text in an image or use some other hack to serve the font to the browser. Fortunately, that's a thing of the past thanks to Web Fonts. Although you can host Web Fonts on your own web server, it's worth checking first to see what's available from an online service such as Adobe Edge Web Fonts. It's a free service that gives you access to more than 500 fonts for use in your websites. They're integrated into Dreamweaver CC, but you don't need a Creative Cloud account to use them, which means they'll continue working in your web pages even if you stop subscribing to the Creative Cloud. Before you can use an Edge Web Font, you need to enable it in the Manage Fonts dialogue box which you access from the Tools menu. This dialogue box…

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