fonts for paper and online viewing

I used Century Old Style and Frutiger for catalogs of industrial tools printed
on presses. Now we're redesigning catalog, moving from Quark to InDesign, and
thinking of changing to fonts that will also work well on web pages. I used
Century Old Style 10/12 for text, and Frutiger 9/11 for lists of items. 14 and
24 point Frutiger Black were used as item heads and page heads.

Haven't looked at any new fonts in a long time and don't know anything about
fonts for online use.
Last time I did anything, it was to expand Century Old Style to 105% horizontal
so it would match the length of what were the more popular book faces. Probably
should have moved to a new font then, instead of scaling Century, which was
starting to look condensed.

Would appreciate any advise on a serif face that includes fractions, and a sans
serif that can look good online and on the page, with columns of numbers,
fractions, and heavy weights. I don't see many serif faces used online, so the
sans serif will be the one we use for both print and online.
Thank you,

tim,

Let me understand -- is this "live" type? Or graphics. For graphics,
you can pick any typeface you want. For live text, stick to what most folks have
on their computers, including, but not limited to Arial, Times, Helvetica,
Verdana, Georgia, etc. You have little choice other than using your code to
request certain fonts. But if they are not resident on the viewer's computer,
another font on his system will be substituted.

Also, I recommend that this Web issue be continued in the "Web Design"
forums for additional responses.

Thanks.

Thanks Neil, I'll look into another forum. Guess I need to read more before even
knowing how to ask the question. Main concern now is replacing Century Old Style
with another serif face that has built-in fractions and small caps, and would
work well with Frutiger as the second face for the printed catalog.

Maybe I was complicating things by trying to think about how these typefaces
would look with screen fonts, when the catalog pages are displayed on website as
part of the content.

tim,

We may be overcomplicating this. If you are placing PDFs on line for download
and reading, then it is easy enough for you to choose ANY font(s) you want (and
embed them) and see how it looks on-screen.

But for live type -- within your HTML pages -- stick to fonts commonly available
with computer operating systems.

But you need to tell us which way the fonts will be implemented.

tim,

More: if you are going to be preparing the catalog in PDF format only (rather
than plain HTML or database-driven pages created on the fly) and want to know
about font choices for PDF or commercial printing, then why not wander over to
the Typography forum where those experts can help.