I have the following CSS:
font-family: 'HelveticaNeue-UltraLight', 'Helvetica Neue UltraLight', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: 1px; }
It works on all Mac browsers (Chrome, Safari) But I opened my project on Chrome and Internet explorer on Windows, it displays the font as bold rather than light. I'm not sure how to fix this but I need the design to work cross platform with the design that appears on mac.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I've tried using arial but arial doesn't become light on both mac and windows.
The font you see on Windows is not bold, it is just regular Arial.
In almost all Windows systems, the first available font family among those listed in the font-family value is Arial. Since Arial has no typeface of weight 100, or of any weight less than 400, the normal (400) weight typeface is used instead, by the font matching algorithm.
Fonts in standard distributions of Windows generally lack typefaces with weight less than normal. So to use lighter typefaces, you would need to use downloadable fonts (web fonts) via #font-face. See e.g. Is #font-face usable now?
(SO has many specific questions on using #font-face, check them if you run into specific problems with it).
The font-family property inform the browser that it's needed to use that font. If there is no path for it, it will check if the system have that one.
In order to be able to have a font that will work on all systems, you need to use the #font-face property.
This last one will allow you to specify path for all the format font, that most of the browsers will download to display it correctly. (For your information all recent browser support it)
#font-face {
font-family: 'myFont';
src: url('myFont.eot');
src: url('myFont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('myFont.woff') format('woff'),
url('myFont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('myFont.svg#myFont') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
If you want more information about that property you can check the reference here:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_font-face_rule.asp
Unfortunetly in your case the font HelveticaNeue is copyrighted, you need to buy the rights to be able to use it as a webfont.
You can take a look here about pricing:
http://www.fonts.com/search/all-fonts?searchtext=HelveticaNeue#product_top
Also, if you have already the right and have one of the format that you wish to convert to a webfont, you can accomplish that here:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Finally, if you prefer you can use Google Fonts that will host the files for you, and you will just have a small script to insert inside your pages:
http://www.google.com/fonts
You can use web fonts (free or paid) as suggested by others, or just use a nice font stack that is likely to cover all bases. CSS Tricks has a nice set of them: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/font-stacks/
In terms of font weight, your CSS specifies a very light font weight:
font-weight: 100;
So if you want to use bold Arial instead, you need to change that.
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After poking around many stylesheets for different websites, I have consistently noticed font or font-family values that are used which do not appear to use correct font-family names. I am wondering if I just don't fully understand how to reference font family names as used by CSS.
For example, on this stylesheet, the authors use the following several times:
font-family:"minion-pro";
however, as far as Google tells me, no such font family actually exists. For example, if you Google the following:
font minion-pro
none of the first several hits show anything "minion-pro", but rather all the hits are for "Minion" or "Minion Pro"; the fifth hit is for this link, which as far as I understand CSS, requires the user to reference this font as
font-family: "Minion Pro";
I have also seen this on some stylesheets for the font "Myriad Pro" which, when you Google font myriad-pro, only return hits for the font "Myriad" and "Myriad Pro". That is, in CSS stylesheets, I have seen this
font-family: "Myriad-Pro";
but to me, this is not correct, and should be
font-family: "Myriad Pro";
So my simple question is: are fonts which contain spaces able to be rendered properly if the spaces are replaced with hyphens?
I believe the answer to this is "no" based on the docs - I cannot easily test this because I do not have easy access to these fonts and I am at work right now. (when I try Codepenning this with "Myriad Pro" or "Minion Pro" nothing happens - fonts not recognized)
It depends on what you name the font-family when you create the #font-face font definition to serve your font.
Like this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'montserratregular';
src: url('/content/fonts/Montserrat/montserrat-regular.eot');
src: url('/content/fonts/Montserrat/montserrat-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/content/fonts/Montserrat/montserrat-regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('/content/fonts/Montserrat/montserrat-regular.woff') format('woff'),
url('/content/fonts/Montserrat/montserrat-regular.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
In this case I would reference font-family: 'montserratregular'; in my css. But if in the #font-face declaration I defined font-family: 'montserrat-regular'; or font-family: 'montserrat regular'; then I would use that in my css.
In the stylesheet you linked the author probably has his #font-face declarations in a separate css file where he defines Minion Pro as "minion-pro", this is common.
Other fonts that you don't serve to the client, System Fonts, should be referenced by their system font name. You can use a site like CSS Font Stack to see what those names are and the likelihood (in %) that they are a system font on Windows or Mac. It also provides common fallbacks for fonts (i.e. you could do this: font-family: 'Myriad Pro', 'Myriad-Pro', 'MyriadPro', Arial;).
A font like Myriad Pro or Minion Pro don't usually ship as an installed system font by default, so thats why we serve the font to the client using the #font-face approach. I user could install Myraid Pro on their machine and then it would be a system font, but you would have to know the exact name and you can't guarantee a user has a unique font or require users who visit your site to manually install it.
I ask out to the community if anybody has ever had any issues embedding fonts on their website and it being rendered terrible as the outcome? This is the case across all latest browsers not tied to a specific browser...
Tried adding certain css rules to change the fonts weight, style, smoothness etc but doesn't seem to effect the font by any means, any ideas?
You will notice that the letter 'A' is not as it should be but the correct font types are loaded with no issues.
Font can be found here
Screenshots
Embedded font CSS
#font-face {
font-family: 'Linotte Semi Bold';
src: url('/fonts/linotte-semi-bold.eot');
src: url('/fonts/linotte-semi-bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/fonts/linotte-semi-bold.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('/fonts/linotte-semi-bold.woff') format('woff'),
url('/fonts/linotte-semi-bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
As we speak I've just received confirmation from MyFonts that sometimes fonts are configured slightly different depending on the font used and may need some tweaking to the Hinting settings when downloading a webfont kit.
The following steps fixed the issue regarding the letter 'A' and now displays correctly as expected:
You may want to try downloading a webfont kit configured to use a different Hinting setting.
Simply log into your MyFonts order history at: https://www.myfonts.com/my/orders/kitbuild.html
Select the webfont you would like to use.
Under the 'Hinting' sub-head, select 'Smooth', 'Native', or 'None' (Best was the default). It may take a couple of tries, depending on the font and how it's used.
The custom Webfont Kit Builder will select a CSS script by default. If you would prefer to use JS, simply change this option at the bottom of the page.
Download the new kit and replace the existing webfonts/stylesheet in your server.
Try this, it fixed some of my font appearance in the past, but it's kind of a shot in the dark. That "A" really looks strange, does it look the same if you install the font on your system and use it in photoshop or word or anything else?
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
I have some css like this:
font-family: "Open Sans Condensed",sans-serif;
And I'm having a hard time understanding how the displayed font is chosen. I always thought that the browser checks if the client has the first font installed, and if not, it uses the next font in the list. But now I've run into an issue where in my local and testing environments, using Firefox, the first font is used, but in production, using the the same browser on the same machine, the second font is chosen.
Why does the website use one font on one server and the other on a different server?
Is there any way to make it use the same font on all servers without #font-face?
Figured it out...
This line was importing the font from Google:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans+Condensed:300,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
On the production server, they've decided to disallow all external requests like this, so it can't load the font. That's not the case on our other servers...
So I donwloaded the font from Google, generated webfonts at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator, and then added the following css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed';
src: url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/opensans-condbold-webfont.svg#open_sans_condensedbold') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Why not to use #font-face? It is well supported and invented to avoid this kind of problems. Please remember that for security reasons, does not work for subdomains in FF.
Might have to do with the way the browser looks for the fonts in a local server vs live server. I had an issue before with naming a font "Open Sans Condensed" vs "OpenSans-Condensed" (it was a different font, but followed the same rule) which was the font filename. So maybe you could find the filename and add it to your 'font-family' tag.
link is :
http://www.woolovers.com/silk-cotton/womens/sleeveless-silk-cotton-camisole.aspx
Left is iPhone display and right is PC. The fonts circled are having same css but have different display. A(pc)=B(pc) but A!=B. Any ideas?
As Jukka has said it is not a supported font on iOS so you have three options.
Choose a different font which is available on ALL (iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows etc.) platforms.
Host the font file on your web server and point to it with CSS #font-face.
Use an online font hosting service such as Google Webfonts
To point to a custom font with CSS use the code below and copy the Lucida Sans font file to your web server.
#font-face{
font-family: "Lucida Sans"; src:url('LucidaSans.ttf');
}
Note: Google Web Fonts does not have Lucida Sans available.
It seems that iPhone just hasn’t got a font named Lucida Sans and therefore uses another font. Cf. to What fonts do iPhone applications support?
My computer doesn't show the text using Lucisa Sans either, because the version of the font that I have is named Lucida Sans Unicode. All computers doesn't have a font named Helvetica either.
You should use a font stack will fallbacks all the way to the default font sans-serif defined in CSS. That way you know that one of the fonts specified will always be used, and it won't fall back to something completely different:
font-family: Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family:
You should always include at least one generic family name in a font-family list, since there's no guarantee that any given font is available. This lets the browser select an acceptable fallback font when necessary.
I went with the following fallback fonts:
font-family: "Lucida Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
I've seen some new websites that are using custom fonts on their sites (other than the regular Arial, Tahoma, etc.).
And they support a nice amount of browsers.
How does one do that? While also preventing people from having free access to download the font, if possible.
Generically, you can use a custom font using #font-face in your CSS. Here's a very basic example:
#font-face {
font-family: 'YourFontName'; /*a name to be used later*/
src: url('http://domain.example/fonts/font.ttf'); /*URL to font*/
}
Then, trivially, to use the font on a specific element:
.classname {
font-family: 'YourFontName';
}
(.classname is your selector).
Note that certain font-formats don't work on all browsers; you can use fontsquirrel.com's generator to avoid too much effort converting.
You can find a nice set of free web-fonts provided by Google Fonts (also has auto-generated CSS #font-face rules, so you don't have to write your own).
while also preventing people from having free access to download the font, if possible
Nope, it isn't possible to style your text with a custom font embedded via CSS, while preventing people from downloading it. You need to use images, Flash, or the HTML5 Canvas, all of which aren't very practical.
To make sure that your font is cross-browser compatible, make sure that you use this syntax:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Comfortaa Regular';
src: url('Comfortaa.eot');
src: local('Comfortaa Regular'),
local('Comfortaa'),
url('Comfortaa.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('Comfortaa.svg#font') format('svg');
}
Taken from here.
You have to download the font file and load it in your CSS.
F.e. I'm using the Yanone Kaffeesatz font in my Web Application.
I load and use it via
#font-face {
font-family: "Yanone Kaffeesatz";
src: url("../fonts/YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular.ttf");
}
in my stylesheet.
Today there are four font container formats in use on the web: EOT, TTF, WOFF,andWOFF2.
Unfortunately, despite the wide range of choices, there isn't a single universal format that works across all old and new browsers:
EOT is IE only,
TTF has partial IE support,
WOFF enjoys the widest support but is not available in some older browsers
WOFF 2.0 support is a work in progress for many browsers.
If you want your web app to have the same font across all browsers then you might want to provide all 4 font type in CSS
#font-face {
font-family: 'besom'; !important
src: url('fonts/besom/besom.eot');
src: url('fonts/besom/besom.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/besom/besom.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('fonts/besom/besom.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/besom/besom.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/besom/besom.svg#besom_2regular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
If you dont find any fonts that you like from Google.com/webfonts or fontsquirrel.com you can always make your own web font with a font you made.
here's a nice tutorial: Make your own font face web font kit
Although im not sure about preventing someone from downloading your font.
Hope this helps,
there's also an interesting tool called CUFON. There's a demonstration of how to use it in this blog
It's really simple and interesting. Also, it doesn't allow people to ctrl+c/ctrl+v the generated content.
I am working on Win 8, use this code. It works for IE and FF, Opera, etc.
What I understood are : woff font is light et common on Google fonts.
Go here to convert your ttf font to woff before.
#font-face
{
font-family:'Open Sans';
src:url('OpenSans-Regular.woff');
}
First of all, you can't prevent people from downloading fonts except if it is yours and that usually takes months.
And it makes no sense to prevent people from using fonts.
A lot of fonts that you see on websites can be found on free platforms like the one I mentioned below.
But if you want to implement a font into your website read this:
There is a pretty simple and free way to implement fonts into your website.
I would recommend Google fonts because it is free and easy to use.
For example, I'll use the Bangers font from Google.(https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bangers?query=bangers&sidebar.open&selection.family=Bangers)
This is how it would look like:
HTML
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bangers&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
CSS
body {
font-family: 'Bangers', cursive;
}