A font is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s most fonts are digital, used on computers.
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Incorrect print rendering of italic fonts in chrome [migrated]
I have an HTML page with a rendering issue where italic fonts are being clipped by what appears to be the bounding box of the next letter. I've tested this on a HP LJ5100 with postscript (the only ...
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Is it still recommended to only use relative font-size for accessibility?
I have read in the past that it is recommended to use only relative sized fonts in web pages of accessibility. Is this still the case? Using Bootsrap from IE7, for example, which uses body{ ...
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Font creation for logo [closed]
I have a template and that template has a logo. The logo is something called "Cream". I really like the way it has been set up. I want the same style with different name. How to do that? The problem ...
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What's the best body text font for Windows XP? [closed]
For my Windows testing, I am using XP, since that is what I have, and I am testing with Firefox and IE. I noticed that the Times, Georgia and Utopia fonts all look pretty bad in Firefox. I've noticed ...
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Converting Free / Paid Fonts via fontsquirrel for Web Use
I was trying to upload a GillSansMTPro-Book font to fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
But I got this message
Monotype has requested that their font Gill Sans MT Pro Book be
blacklisted by the ...
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Use of rare fonts on the web
I have just been peeking at the source code of a web page.
I notice that there is a CSS rule that defines what seems to be a rare font for some nice-looking subheadings.
Html (Source file)
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Website using different fonts across different browsers
The navigation board items on my website at www.amsa.mn uses the wrong font when displayed with Firefox. The correct font is loaded when I access the website with Safari or Chrome.
Is there any way to ...
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Problem in rendering Trebuchet MS font
We have using microsoft word 2003 and we have used the below code to render the font.
font_face = "Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
but, instead of Trebuchet MS, we are getting ...
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Legal Web Fonts & Licensing
So I'm a little confused in regards to legality of using fonts for web.
Often from designers I get a PSD file and it uses a special font, and the font is supplied. However attempting to convert the ...
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Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8
I am seeing the following "oddity" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8:
When declaring font-family: serif; I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead ...
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What is the default serif, sans-serif and monospace font-family for Mac OS X?
Beginning with OS X 10.0 Cheetah, and assuming they are the same through the current release 10.8 Mountain Lion, what are the default fonts rendered for the following font-families?
font-family: ...
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Is Lucida Sans Typewriter installed on Mac OS X by default?
I'm updating my font stacks and I'm finding contradictory information on the install base for Lucida Sans Typewriter.
According to this page and this page, it is installed on 99% of all Macs.
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Is it time to drop Courier from your monospace font stacks?
I've been fine-tuning my font stacks lately and was wondering if it's safe to drop Courier from my monospace font stack yet? Would you feel comfortable dropping it?
Of course, monospace is my final ...
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Optimizing (reducing) web font requests
My homepage currently uses 5 web fonts--I'd like it to be 6 due to spotty support for Helvetica Neue. One of the fonts is 'FontAwesome' icons, the other 4 are only used for a word or two (i.e. I have ...
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Different fonts available to different browsers [closed]
Why do different browsers allow different fonts.
Example: why does helvetica not work in opera (for me).
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Why is <strong> in Safari significantly bolder than other browsers?
I am just about to go live with a new website - and during cross browser testing i noticed that the bold fonts in safari are FAR bolder (horribly chunky) in Safari than in the other big 4.
The font ...
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{font-family:} for fonts in emails ?
is there an email equivilant of the css property font-family ? As emails dont embed the font the reader has to have the font installed on their computer, if they dont the font will render in times ...
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Including Specific Characters with Google Web Fonts
I'm using the Open Sans web font from Google Web Fonts on my website. I only need the basic latin subset, but I do use the Psi (Ψ) character quite often as well and I would like to use the Open Sans ...
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Issue with CSS font color in Webkit in Lion (#444 looks darker than #333) [closed]
I have a strange issue with Safari and Chrome Mac (19.0.1084.54) in OS X Lion.
Here it is, very simply put:
When I display it in a Webkit browser, text set in Helvetica Neue and color Hex #444 ...
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How to properly convert a UTF8 truetype font to use on web?
I'm trying to embed this UTF8 truetype font (the font contains Persian characters) in the web and I use this service to convert it to proper formats.
The only problem is, it's not working on Google ...
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@font-face, google fonts and SEO
Someone I know claims that search engines like Google have trouble with fonts that aren't the old standard fonts of yesteryear, resulting in pages not getting parsed by search spiders, and that to be ...
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Why The W3C CSS Validation Service is showing Value Error : font / is not a font-family value : 11px / 14px “Trebuchet MS”,sans-serif
I tried to validate my css code using W3C tidy and the w3c website is showing me the error that
Value Error : font / is not a font-family value : 11px / 14px
"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif
So ...
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Anti aliasing problem
I am auditioning fonts on google web fonts and one that I was discounting was Ubuntu because it looked a bit jagged ( screenshot below taken straight from google); however afterward I read an article ...
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Wordpress layout and font changes between www.example.com/blog and example.com/blog
A WordPress installation using http://www.example.com/blog shows a wrong font (and due to that a wrong layout) whereas using http://example.com/blog shows the correct font and layout.
This happens on ...
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Multiple fonts in a website
I have been creating a blog and now its almost done. I am thinking of adding fonts to it. I am curious if having more than 1 font in a website makes it look unprofessional? I understand that it is a ...
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Which font is this? (image attached inside) [closed]
Someone please help me in finding the name of the following font:
Note: Only letters, ABHM are displayed.
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If I have only WOFF and EOT, what browsers am I supporting with @font-face?
We're looking at buying a font which only allows its use on the web in the provided formats: WOFF and EOT.
I'm not sure what browsers those work in and can't seem to find up to date information. What ...
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Adding custom fonts to Tumblr
I'd like my tumblr blog to display a custom font, and to do so, I have to add the font directory to my blog by adding the URI (e.g url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#FontAwesomeRegular').
If Tumblr ...
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Rendering IPA characters like 'ŋ' correctly
(I hope this isn't too dumb a question)
When I go to this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
These 'special' phoenetic characters, such as 'ŋ' render ...
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How to overcome browser-specific font rendering differences? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make fonts render the same way across different web browsers?
So I was working on our website and came across an interesting issue.
I usually work with Chrome ...
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Firefox: @font-face issue w/ remote fonts [closed]
I've been having some trouble understanding this issue.
I'm trying to use an @font-face font on a subdomain, say mysite.example.com. The "src" of the font face would be something along the lines of ...
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fireworks font / text problem
Fireworks cs5 (and cs4 for that matter) does not display fonts correctly. What I mean by that, Text appears different in browsers then it appears in fireworks. Changing anti-aliasing mode does not ...
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font: Lucida Grande Unicode - does it exist?
I used Lucida Grande Unicode in photoshop to design my graphics. Now I'm trying to xhtml it.
The problem is that, when I use css -> font:1em Lucida Grande Unicode nothing happens... I don't see ...
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Google Chrome @font-face problem
I have problem with pages that have @font-face with Chrome, for example if I go to page http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/SAC/, then my computer freezes and I cannot do anything for a while. And this ...
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A tool to test web fonts on a live site
Are there any browser/online tools to quickly test a live site with web fonts, like Google Web Fonts? So, as I see it, I visit any site, for example, microsoft.com and click something like Analyze ...
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Does Lucida Sans Unicode font in Windows 7 have a bold style?
I am trying to set an alternative to Mac Lucida Grande font with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows users and found out that I see no bold style of it in my Windows 7. Is that common for all Windows 7? ...
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Font rendering issue
I realized there are problems about how fonts are rendered in different browsers/OS for a site I'm working on. I'm using Cantarell from Google Web Fonts, size 16px, it that matters. Here is some ...
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Need to use Helvetica in CSS
What's the most suitable font replacement technique - technically, legally and in terms of accessibility - to use a Helvetica font in my website? Up to now I've used sifr as a font replacement method, ...
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DPI scaling - fonts - Browser Compatibility Problems
Many times windows 7 users, go at Control Panel - Display Options and choose a custom DPI setting (ie 110%) to increase font size in cases that they have big monitors and cannot see clearly.
In this ...
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Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, etc as webfonts?
Does anyone know if the so called "web safe fonts" like Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet or Georgia are available as webfonts (that you can link to and safely use in your stylesheet) on a public CDN ...
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HTML default font sizes
Do the HTML font tags (like p and h3) have default font sizes universally in all browsers? For example, I'd imagine p is around 16px or so. Is there a standardized list someone could link me off to?
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What free icons fonts are available? [closed]
With the possibility to embed fonts in websites using @font-face CSS, some creative webdesigners developed their way to display icons using fonts, instead of images.
But most of the available icon ...
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Leveraging a hosted web font service from a local development server?
There are a number of popular web font services on the market today who "host" the fonts and serve them to your web page via javascript or CSS pointing to remote locations. For example ...
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A standard glyph map for using symbol / dingbat / icon fonts
I was wondering if there exists or should exist a standard glyph map for icon/symbol fonts. That way if you have a system/theme with thousands of sites running you could easily change styles of the ...
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Curious CSS: “font-family: restore-n8;”
Found some curious CSS in the source for http://contrastrebellion.com/:
font-family: restore-n8, restore-1, restore-2, sans-serif;
Restore-n8 and the like don't seem to be font names. What does ...
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Most Popular Fonts used in Webpages and their Fallbacks?
This is a two part question, the second question is dependent on the first:
What are the most popular fonts used on web pages? (the top half dozen will suffice).
Include the proper CSS fallbacks for ...
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is 'bookman old style' web safe
Is 'Bookman Old Style' web safe? If not, is there something that looks similar which is web safer?
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Mac font on website on PC
I like how fonts look on a Mac. Is it possible to render something similar in a website and have it work on all operating systems and browsers? I'm aware of font-face but I can't seem to find a clean ...
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Custom font not displaying properly
I am trying to install a custom font on my site. The browser will load the font, but the display is not quite right. The character vertical positions/sizes seem to be off a tiny amounts. See examples
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