Adobe Muse / Design websites with precise typography

Web fonts provide more fonts to choose from for your web designs than web-safe fonts, with all of the same benefits. Web fonts allow you to use fonts that are not installed on the viewer's computer. With web fonts the text scales up and down cleanly with the browser zoom level, and the text content loads very quickly. Also, the text you create is searchable and is accessible for visitors who are visually impaired.

The web fonts menu in Adobe Muse includes access to more than 400 typefaces — including fonts from the Adobe Typekit® library*, the Adobe Type Library, and a selection of open source fonts — served by the Typekit service. Now you can design your website with beautiful typography using real, high-quality fonts that display across all modern browsers.

Web-safe fonts are a limited list of font choices available for use in web design, such as Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, and Verdana, that are available to everyone. Web-safe fonts include fonts that are installed on most Windows® and Mac computers. If the first choice (Helvetica, for example) is not available on a visitor's machine, the site will look for the next font, such as Arial. This results in differences in the appearance and layout of web page designs on one visitor's machine compared with that of another.

As with web fonts, the text you create with web-safe fonts will be rendered as selectable text in the published version of your website. Text content is desirable over images because it keeps your site searchable and makes it accessible for visitors who are visually impaired. Also, the text scales up and down cleanly with the browser zoom level, and the text content loads very quickly.

System fonts are the fonts that you have installed on your computer. When you use these fonts in your Adobe Muse website design, you'll still be able to edit and control the text content in the Design view as you are laying out the page, but when you publish a site, the text will be rasterized and converted to an image. That way, the look and feel of the custom fonts you apply to text in your designs will be preserved, even if the visitor doesn't have the font installed on his or her computer.

Keep in mind that text published to the web as an image cannot be selected or copied as text in a browser window. Images will load more slowly than web-safe fonts, so use them sparingly. Text frames that use system fonts also do not support applying hyperlinks to ranges of text, since the exported object is an image and not text. Nevertheless, when creating titles, logos, and other important text design elements, you can use system fonts confidently — with Adobe Muse, the images of text elements are faithfully rendered to fit the design, and the text is tagged automatically so it will be searchable.