Some of you already know, Safari on Mac change the font face to default
if the font set on the page is not available.
I want to change the default font on Safari by setting css file in it.
Is there any command set default font on any page in css?
You can include multiple fonts in the font-family attribute: if one isn't available the next one in the list is used. For example, this will use Arial if "custom font"isn't available:
html {
font-family: "custom font", Arial;
}
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I am trying to add some custom font in my site but unable to do. I am not sure if I am using a right or wrong path. Kindly help.
#font-face {
font-family: XfinityStandard
src: url('landingpage/fonts/XfinityStandard-Light.woff2') format("woff2");
where landingpage is folder name.
There are two main ways to check:
Is the font actually working (i.e. can you see it rendering properly), and
Inspect your page (e.g. in Chrome, right-click the text you expect the font to render on, and select Inspect from the drop-down menu. In your Styles tab, at the right-hand bottom of the page, there should be a section called Rendered Fonts. If you have implemented your font correctly, it should show here (in addition to the css hierarchy applied, where your font should be listed).
If your font is not showing here, make sure you follow the following:
The #font-face rule should be added to your css before any styles
Use your rule in your css by specifying the font as XfinityStandard and provide a fall-back like sans-serif, e.g. body { font-family: 'XfinityStandard', sans-serif; }
Make sure you have wide support, so when you specify your font, add an additional source for format('woff')
As Devansh J mentioned, make sure your font is relative to the css file
If you are still having issues, maybe consider a hosted font like Google Fonts, as follows: #import url(///fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat which you can use as body { font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif; }
I wanted to know the default behavior of the browser when it comes to fonts. if the CSS does not specify the font-family property (or it is specified, but the font is not installed) then what determines the default font?
are there fonts that are universal among OS's (times new roman, arial, etc...) or is it a universal font type (san-saraf,saraf, etc...) that all OS"s share (meaning a default will fallback to font type and not a specific font)?
The answer to this question depends on the users browser. Each browser has a default font. The user can then change this value to some other more desirable font to be defaulted in case of no font-family tags or no font installed on site. But it is browser specific.
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 am using an own custom font which I embed like this:
#font-face{font-family:myFont;src:url(css/fonts/myFont.woff);}
#font-face{font-family:myBoldFont;src:url(css/fonts/myBoldFont.woff);}
So, when ever I want to use bold font, I do:
<style>
.bold{
font-family:"myBoldFont";
}
</style>
<div class="bold">Hello world</div>
Also, I need to overwrite all css definitions that use bold typography by default:
<style>
strong,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,h7,h8{
font-family:"myBoldFont";
font-weight:normal;
}
</style>
As you can see, I must set font-weight:normal because if I'd set font-weight:bold the browser would not find the right font and do a fallback because there is no definition for "bold" in this .woff file.
So, this works quite well for browsers that do support #font-face and .woff files. For browsers that do not, like e.g. older iOS devices, I need to set a fall-back like this:
font-family:"myBoldFont",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
So, the fallback to helvetica works, but the text is not bold, because font-weight:normal is set.
Now, here is the problem:
If I set font-weight:bold then browsers that can handle woff files
will fall back to a default font instead of using the one I defined
via the woff file.
If I set font-weight:normal then older browsers that cannot handle
woff files won't be able to print text bold.
What should I do?
Have you tried the following : How to add multiple font files for the same font? ?
The #font-face property allows you to specify for which styles to apply the font.
In Firefox when a page loads it shows a default font (such as Times New Roman) for a moment (depending on connection speed) before it renders using the specified font-face. I understand this cannot be faster but how can I set, for example, Arial as the default font before it changes when the font-face loads?
Specifying an extra font in your font-family property will solve your problem.
font-family: "YourFontFaceFont", arial;
This will cause arial to be used until "YourFontFaceFont" is available.