Since a webpage is rendered on a client, the pages can only use the font resources available, which is why in cascading style sheets, the font family tags tend to go from specific to most general, to ensure you get the closest match according to the client's available fonts, which is important if you have clients using many different platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux).

Microsoft has a Web Embedding Font Tool (WEFT) designed to allow you to embed fonts in your webpages at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx but it has a few caveats. Last time I looked at it, it only worked with Internet Explorer, which means you could embed your font for most Windows users, but no one else. It is possible that other browsers have started supporting the technology in the last few years since I played with it. The other caveat is that fonts have licensing information. Since Bradley Hand ITC is a Linotype font, your license with them probably doesn't allow you to distribute it and WEFT respects the licenses of fonts. There are many intermediate shades of "embeddability" that Microsoft's site explains.

Microsoft has a Font Properties Extension that will allow you to view font properties to see if you can use them with WEFT at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx.

Unless Bradley Hand ITC is at least a "previewable" font and you only cater only to Windows IE clients, you can't ensure your clients have access to Bradley Hand ITC, short of having them download and install it (and possibly rebooting) before viewing your website.

Looking at Bradley Hand ITC, it would be a good font for headers or small quoted blocks. If that's all you need to accomplish, you could take screen captures of your output for all the anticipated screen resolutions and post GIFs instead of actual text. You would then need to use JavaScript to determine the client's screen size and choose the GIF targeting that screen size. You need to target different screen resolutions otherwise the GIF will grow and shrink drastically depending on whether it is being viewed on an older 800×600 laptop or more contemporary 1600×1200 screen. The difference in font size would be a factor of 2.

For more than a paragraph of text, Bradley Hand ITC would be tiring to read. Books, newspapers, and magazines are published in serifed fonts like Times, Garamond, Palatino, etc. because they are easy to read. If you were planning on pages with a lot of text to read, you may want to reconsider. A stylized font is not readable for long passages, so if you want people to finish reading your page's text or if you want to avoid the impression that getting information from your website is frustrating, a serifed font might be more appropriate.

If the information that you are distributing is basically an e-document that they are likely to want to print out or view page after page, you can consider distributing it as a PDF. If you have Adobe Acrobat, it is possible to distribute documents with embedded fonts. Again, Adobe, as a font foundry themselves, respects font licensing limitations in their software.

Maybe more info and personal opinions than you wanted, but I hope it helps.

>I want to use Bradley Hand ITC font on my website, but it substitutes another generic font for my client. It resides on my PC, but not on theirs. We have not tested on the server yet. Does it need to be available on the server that is hosting the site? Can I include it in my site directory somehow so it is availble to everyone who visits regardless of whether the font exists on the host server or the client's PC?