The Liberation Sans Narrow font is included with many versions of Microsoft Windows. It is a discrete font, defined by the file LiberationSansNarrow-Regular.ttf.
How, in CSS, can this font be specified? Simply specifying:
font-family: "Liberation Sans Narrow";
will not work.
Note that specifying:
font-family: "Liberation Sans";
will work to specify the Liberation Sans font, which is defined by a different TrueType font file.
I only need the CSS code to work in Firefox. It is perfectly acceptable (and expected) that it will only work in browsers running on systems that have that specific font installed.
Note that I don't want to approximate Liberation Sans Narrow; I want that specific font to be used due to the clarity of rendering.
I want to specify this font for modifying the chrome within Firefox using userChrome.css.
it depends on how the file has been included in the page.
1) font included through url then the file would have the font name used for it. we need to use the same font name
2) font included locally through the font-face then we need to use the name we mention to that font
Related
I want to use system fonts first and fallback to a web font, but it is not working as expected.
Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/60s8mgpu/
Result in my browser:
When I set font-family: sans-serif,'Arimo'; I want to render characters the same as with font-family: sans-serif;, but the last character ϣ is different (rendered by Arimo). My system supports it using "DejaVu Sans—Local file(1 glyph)".
Maybe DejaVu Sans is not serif, nor sans-serif? If so, how to set font-family to use system fonts as first and if none of them support a character then download some font, e.g. Arimo?
I have two website hosted on different server, there are elements that i have set the same font-family as 'TheSans', I am sure they both are not overwritten, the 'theSans' is the real and final value in css, but the font of these 2 pages just look differently with same browser. I checked on my pc and found that I don't have this 'theSans' font installed, so what actually happened there?
if the browser does not find the font, what font it will use? why the behavior is different in same browser.
If a browser doesn't have the font, it will fall back to the other options specified in the css font-familyrule. If no addition options are specified it will just use its default. eg. below it will use Helvetica if installed, if not it will use arial, if no arial it will just pick what every sans-serif font it has
font-family: Helvetica, arial , san-serif;
Link about font-family
Now that being said, wouldn't it be nice to give the browser the font if it doesn't have it? And that is where the #font-face CSS rule comes in
related question here
About #font-face
I'm doing a Photoshop-to-XHTML conversion, and the website designer used the Myriad Pro Semi-bold font which looks good in the photoshop file, but when I try the semi-bold option in CSS, it looks pretty much like a normal bold font, which is too bold for my purpose. Is there a way to achieve a nicer looking semi-bold font in HTML and CSS or am I just stuck with 'font-weight: 600;'?
In CSS, for the font-weight property, the value: normal defaults to the numeric value 400, and bold to 700.
If you want to specify other weights, you need to give the number value. That number value needs to be supported for the font family that you are using.
For example you would define semi-bold like this:
font-weight: 600;
Here an JSFiddle using 'Open Sans' font family, loaded with the above weights.
The practical way is setting font-family to a value that is the specific name of the semibold version, such as
font-family: "Myriad pro Semibold"
if that’s the name. (Personally I use my own font listing tool, which runs on Internet Explorer only to see the fonts in my system by names as usable in CSS.)
In this approach, font-weight is not needed (and probably better not set).
Web browsers have been poor at implementing font weights by the book: they largely cannot find the specific weight version, except bold. The workaround is to include the information in the font family name, even though this is not how things are supposed to work.
Testing with Segoe UI, which often exists in different font weight versions on Windows systems, I was able to make Internet Explorer 9 select the proper version when using the logical approach (of using the font family name Segoe UI and different font-weight values), but it failed on Firefox 9 and Chrome 16 (only normal and bold work). On all of these browsers, for example, setting font-family: Segoe UI Light works OK.
For me the following works good. Just add it. You can edit it as per your requirement. This is just a nice trick I use.
text-shadow : 0 0 0 #your-font-color;
font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-weight: 600; important to change to a different font-family
By mid-2016 the Chromium engine (v53) supports just 3 emphasis styles:
Plain text, bold, and super-bold...
<div style="font:normal 400 14px Arial;">Testing</div>
<div style="font:normal 700 14px Arial;">Testing</div>
<div style="font:normal 800 14px Arial;">Testing</div>
Select fonts by specifying the weights you need on load
Font-families consist of several distinct fonts
For example, extra-bold will make the font look quite different in say, Photoshop, because you're selecting a different font. The same applies to italic font, which can look very different indeed. Setting font-weight:800 or font-style:italic may result in just a best effort of the web browser to fatten or slant the normal font in the family.
Even though you're loading a font-family, you must specify the weights and styles you need for some web browsers to let you select a different font in the family with font-weight and font-style.
Example
This example specifies the light, normal, normal italic, bold, and extra-bold fonts in the font family Open Sans:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:100,400,400i,600,800">
<style>
body {
font-family: 'Open Sans', serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="font-weight:400">Didn't work with all the fonts</div>
<div style="font-weight:600">Didn't work with all the fonts</div>
<div style="font-weight:800">Didn't work with all the fonts</div>
</body>
</html>
Reference
(Quora warning, please remove if not allowed.)
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-make-Open-Sans-extra-bold-once-imported-from-Google-Fonts
Testing
Tested working in Firefox 66.0.3 on Mac and Firefox 36.0.1 in Windows.
Non-Google fonts
Other fonts must be uploaded to the server, style and weight specified by their individual names.
System fonts
Assume nothing, font-wise, about what device is visiting your website or what fonts are installed on its OS.
(You may use the fall-backs of serif and sans-serif, but you will get the font mapped to these by the individual web browser version used, within the fonts available in the OS version it's running under, and not what you designed.)
Testing should be done with the font temporarily uninstalled from your system, to be sure that your design is in effect.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/QVBGx.png
It is pretty evident that my site renders different on Chrome and FF7 on my Win7 machine
I am using this:
h1, h2 {font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Helvetica Neue", Arial; }
Does anybody can point me how can I even these diffs? I don't want fonts with different 'feelings' on each browser.
The font, Lucida Grande is installed in my Windows machine
EDIT:
font-weight: normal !important
doesn't work either
It looks like the two browsers are rendering it with a different weight.
I can think of two possibilities, though I don't know if either are correct.
You requested a bold font, but that font is not available in bold. One browser is just showing the regular, non-bold variant unchanged, whereas the other has processed it to look bold.
You requested a particular weight of font, say "bold" or "600" but the installed fonts do not precisely match that weighting. One browser is substituting an "extra-bold" variant of font, and the other a "regular-bold", or something of this nature.
If either of these is correct you could play around with the font-weight CSS property to try and alter it. But then that may affect substitution of whichever font is chosen in the case that it is viewed on a system with no Lucida Grande font at all.
Fonts will always render slightly different from one browser to another, but that was a bit more difference than usual. Probably because the headers have font-weight: bold; as default, and the font doesn't have a bold variation so the browsers create the bold style from the regular weight in different ways.
Anyway, you might want to use more common fonts. On my Windows 7 machine there is neither Lucida Grande nor Helvetica Neue, so it would render using Arial. Still, I have the additional fonts that come with both MS Office and Photoshop, so I have a lot more fonts installed than you can expect from a standard system.
Also, you should always specify a generic font as the last resort, in this case sans serif, otherwise it would render using the default font if none of the fonts are installed, which is something like Times Roman which has a completely different look. Perhaps also adding Helvetica, which is the closest equivalent of Arial on non-Windows systems.
I have an asp.net page with an asp.net menu.
I defined the font in the menu items to be Myriad Pro.
In IE and Firefox it appears normally, but in Safari the menu items appear blank.
when I changed the font type to another font it worked fine.
so is there a way to make the Myriad Pro font appear on Safari.
thanks
As Rup mentioned, Myriad Pro is not a ubiquitously defined Mac font. However, if you have a copy of the .otf or .eot font files, you can make the font available to all CSS3 compliant browsers and supply a backup font for display should the browser not support CSS3. This would be the syntax for doing such:
#font-face {
font-family: "CustomMyriadPro";
src: url("path/to/myriadpro/font.otf") format("opentype");
}
h2 {
font-family: "CustomMyriadPro", Helvetica, Georgia;
}
Make sure your CSS specifies Myriad Pro in quotes, i.e.
font-family: "Myriad Pro", sans-serif;
Secondly, be aware that a font will only appear if it's installed on the end user's machine (unless you're using #font-face), so you always need to define some fall-back fonts, e.g.
font-family: "Myriad Pro", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
This problem is happening with multiple installed fonts on my Mac since the upgrade to 5.1 and then to Lion. I think something is broken with the upgrade. Other browsers are fine. It is affecting other fonts as well. I had to disable the font-family CSS in the Inspector in order to get this editor to include readable text because Consolas is affected as well.
The problem is not with fallback or specification in CSS. The problem is with Safari and specific fonts. It does not fallback past the problematic font but continues using it, replacing all characters with the capital A in a square; so fallback is of no help.
Discussion and possible explanation here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191532?start=0&tstart=0
According to the codestyle.org font survey, most Macs don't have Myriad Pro installed. (Nor Windows for that matter.) You should pick similar fallback fonts for all of Mac, Windows and Linux then specify a list of these fonts in your style.
If you specifically need Myriad Pro then you could use images, or embed the font using sIFR (maybe not for menus though) or through #font-face font-embedding (thanks Olly!) instead.
Check out the Typekit webfont-embedding service, they have Myriad in their library http://typekit.com/fonts/myriad-pro