error 404

pogo mudder

my friend and I are having to build a website using html for our design course. One of the pages he wants to do is a play on the '404 page not found' error, does anyone know the font used in the bulk text of the 404 message? or can provide a link to a broken page so i can view source and check that way.

Trentus

Really, it depends on who's 404 document you're looking at (they aren't all the same). You could have one in Comic Sans if you really wanted to.

Anyway, if you want to get an idea, just throw something like http://www.penny-arcade.com/jhgkjhg into your address bar and see what happens. Maybe try it for a bunch of different sites you frequent and use the pages to craft something suitable.

EggyToast

This depends greatly on the browser and the operating system. Namely because there is no "bulk text" on a standard 404 -- just a big ol' "404 not found."

Here's one on my site:

http://eggytoast.com/blah/test

which looks like this to me:



See, doesn't even say 404 not found, just Not Found.

Recent versions of IE list a bunch of search shit, if I recall correctly.

pogo mudder

heh i guess i just never considered that, how very dense of me.

heres an ss of the page he's trying to replicate, let me know if you recognise it

flatlinegraphics

looks like straight arial. the one eggy posted looks like times new roman.

but alot of it will depend on how your server sends out the 404 page. most servers will allow you do set a specific page to serve as a 404. fairly trivial with apache, but i know you can do it with iis as well. otherwise, they just send the default, which will vary from server to server.

if you set the page, you can directly specify the font, and pretty much anything else (strange pictures, real error messages, whatever).

Six

Pretty sure that's just Verdana.

rfalias

Since you want to be exact, consult the source of that page.


[HTML]<td id="tableProps2" align="left" valign="middle" width="360"><h1 id="errortype"
style="COLOR: black; FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana"><span id="errorText">The page cannot be found</span></h1>[/HTML]

Black, Veranda, 13/15pt veranda for the title...

[HTML]<font style="COLOR: black; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana">The page you are looking for might have been
removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.</font></td>[/HTML]

Same but lower font size for body

pogo mudder

yeah verdana looks pretty dead on tbh, will just have to mess around with the letter spacing a bit.

thanks for the help guys

Six

Also keep in mind that what you're looking at is just IE's default 404 page. Each browser will have a different one and, as mentioned, webservers can be set to provide a custom one.

exoplasm

I would just like to say that IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) has a freakin' sweet 404 error page.

I don't have a screenshot handy, but it is quite nice.