About font sets

A font set is a collection of fonts (typefaces) that authors apply to topics either through style sheets or character and paragraph formatting. The purpose of the font set is to define the preferred (default) font that should be used to display Help on the end user’s system.

A font set specifies (in order) the fonts that the viewer or browser should substitute for the font that is applied to your text. For example, you can create a font set that lists Verdana as the first font, and then lists (in order) Arial and Sans Serif as substitute fonts. If your end users do not have Verdana on their systems, then the viewer will attempt to use Arial and then Sans Serif.

You can add any font that is installed on your system to a font set. You can also add new fonts if you want more design flexibility. There are numerous companies that supply fonts for HTML publishing. Microsoft provides, free of charge, a variety of fonts that you can download from their Web site.

In order to publish fonts with your Help system, you need to install them on both your authoring system and on your end users’ systems.