I have a question regarding one of google web fonts.
Font which i mean is 'Alegreya Sans'
By default numbers are not aligned in same way... Somehow designer send me zeplin file where he is using same font with equal line heights.
You can see here what i mean (its my default html style):
This is how it looks on design:
And this is what i achived with css right now using:
font-variant: diagonal-fractions;
But problem in this solution is - numbers are to small right now... I cant change font size, because its mixed sometimes with letters.
Once in another project I fixed it somehow with css, but i cant remember how I did it. There was some css property which fix this issue.
Okay, so i have answer for my question.
Google web fonts has limited font features when we using it from google cdn - i guess to make it lighter...
So i decided to download this font as desktop font, and then from .ttf files i generated webfont using transfonter.
I simply used
font-variant-numeric: lining-nums;
And font looks perfect now!
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I have one very surprising issue with Google Fonts. This is the site in question.
The title is normaly showing in one ligne but a friend of mine with the same Opera version like me sent me this screenshot. You can see that the title goes in two lines and brakes every think.
It's the first time I use Gfonts and must admit that there is another problem in Firefox too - the font appears so jagged!
Thanks for your advises!
The line break can be prevented simply by adding
h1 { white-space: nowrap; }
Font rendering depends on the font, on the font size, on the browser, on the operating system, on the device, their settings, and probably phase of the moon, too. Some fonts are more difficult than others, so the practical move is to pick up another font.
Unfortunately, not all browsers render all fonts exactly the same way. I guess your problem with the title in Opera is caused by the font being rendered bigger. You can try to target a specific stylesheet for Opera to solve that.
As for the jagged font, well... you have to deal with that, and choose fonts that will look sharp on every browser.
Take a look here : http://css-tricks.com/font-rendering-differences-firefox-vs-ie-vs-safari/
The jagged issue was solved thanks to this Joomla! extention - KC Cufón Font Replacement. A have included just the characters of my text - only 3KB of js and I left the same Google Web Font loading too in order the text to be shown until the extention loads.
I'm currently developing a site for my University's library, and a very strange issue came up. The font on the website, whether the live version or the one on my machine (not the server) is always smaller than it should be. This is only the case on two computers--my own, and my supervisor. It happens in all browsers. I'm pretty sure it's happening on both of ours because we've handled code, but I can't think of any CSS rules that would be affecting it. To make it worse, it's affecting two different CSSs--the old site (which I have not touched) and the new site which is intended to be rolled out tomorrow. I've tried fixing the way the computer displays fonts, the way browsers display fonts, changed the resolution, and tried zooming in. None of those methods worked. Also, other computers with the same resolution and monitors look at it just fine. No other websites that I visit have this issue. I'm stumped. Any ideas?
The site is here: http://library.uis.edu
Comparisons of the text can be seen here: http://imgur.com/a/Tb7Mv
I think this might be a font issue, rather then a font size issue. Myriad pro is not considered a websave font. As your machine and probabaly the one of your supervisor have probabaly Adobe installed, wich comes with Myriad, you are seeing the site in Myriad, while the other machines are seeing the site in Verdana. (not entirely sure though)
It looks like you are calling Myriad Pro as the first font. I have that font installed on my system, but you're calling the font size to be 75%, which on a font like Myriad Pro, will shrink it down considerably. If I clear the font-size, and font-family to just Verdana, it renders okay, but some of your elements such as the tabbed nav, would need to be addressed.
I'd stay away from fonts like that unless you are using #font-face and a web generated font pack. By choosing Myriad Pro as your font, you will only render that font on computers that also have the font. Consider using something like Google Web Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts/
Having fonts at the body level is fine, and cross fonts (headings versus paragraph) should be handled at a global level for those elements (not the body). Assume the body will take the bulk of the text in the body. You can define a standard font size such as 1.0em; at the body level if you wanted, and then define em sizes for other elements such as h1, h2 tags, and p tags if you don't want to use 1.0em from the body.
It may sound obvious:
I'm used to design mockups of my webpages with illustrator.When I translate everything to css and test the page into my browser I can see that fonts are bigger in the illustrator mockup even if I used the same font setting on the css side.
//in css i have
body{font:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;
font-weight:normal;}
//I wrapped the example text inside "h1" tags
h1{font-size:24px;font-weight:normal;}
//in illustrator I have font georgia,24px,font-style "regular" selected
How could I fix that?
thanks
Luca
They seem to be different fonts altogether - look at the lowercase e and g. Check which font IE is using with the inspector. You can activate the inspector by pressing F12.
EDIT: The font IE8 is using looks like Times New Roman, IE's default font. Try replacing the font:Georgia part with font-family:Georgia. The font property is meant to be used as a shorthand to set all font properties at once and will probably not work when used to set only the typeface.
I would imagine that this is because different browsers handle fonts differently to Illustrator. You can control the font size / spacing and that kind of thing using CSS, as you've noticed - have you got any other font settings you're using in Illustrator like kerning or that sort of thing? That could be affecting it.
I have a font installed on my pc, but after using a font-face converter and changing the css suitably, the lines in my ul are more spaced out, the font-size hasn't changed, but the spacing between them has. What CSS do I need to use to revert this? Example: http://www.givetoagiver.co.cc/about.php
If you need any more information, then please ask, thank you
letter-spacing (http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_letter-spacing.asp)
line-height (http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_dim_line-height.asp)
The above two take care of all the distanced between lines and individual characters.
Still, if the font works OK when it's installed locally, there's a chance the conversion process introduced the problem. What tool have you used for the conversion? Have you tried Font Squirrel's converter? I've never had issues with it.
PS. The link you provided does not seem to work for me.
[EDIT]
#Yi Jiang suggested these links as an alternative to the ones provided by me:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/letter-spacing
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/line-height
Each font can have its own spacing. Web fonts usually uses both the same spacing, so we use them without any issue. with custom fonts, sometimes we've got to change the line-height accordingly:
font: 44px/1.2em Sohoma;
1.2em is the line-height.
I'm stuck with a problem. I'm trying to embed fonts with #font-face but they always looks bolder. I have tried everything: other fonts, change font-weight to "ligher" or "100" etc...
The font looks always as it is bolded. I'm pretty sure it could look good because I've seen it used in many other websites with #font-face and it looks thin and fine.
See the attached image link text (I know it would never look as in PS, but so different?)
thanks
Set the following in your stylesheet on whatever elements you are using font face on and it fixes the issue:
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; /* This needs to be set or some font faced fonts look bold on Mac. */
You are probably using the wrong weight file. Fonts will often be sold in different weights. You should verify that the file you're embedding with #font-face is the right weight.
The way the font looks on photoshop is obviously a graphical version of the font, specially, when photoshop has 5 types of blurring for fonts: none, sharp, crisp, strong and smooth. Those beside the original fonts, which they commonly are in one TTF and have the versions inside or, varios fonts for the different weights and faces.
Maybe if you enlighten us about the font type, the weight, blurring and whatever is useful for reproducing purposes would be useful to help you...
Fonts vary according to OS (Linux, Mac,PC) and even by browser, never mind the Photoshop blurring variants that Billeeb mentioned. For example Safari on windows applies some heavy anti-aliasing to make text smooth, which makes it look blaringly different on Firefox, even on the same machine.
In my opinion, the best way to have a consistent font experience is to use some sort of font replacement technology like Cufon. But this only works for not standard fonts with simple effects, you wouldn't want to use this if you need crazy amounts of drop shadow or blurring. For that its best to stick with images
This could even happen if you are using <h1> tag. h tags makes the font looks bolder.