I am trying to use the CSS font face property. I've made it chance the font to the right one, however it looks very edgy on the Windows platform. Especially Chrome looks awful.
When using OSX all browsers are just perfect.
How can I avoid these awful looking fonts?
On OSX Chrome:
On Windows Chrome:
The Segoe font is already installed on most Windows PC's. This can cause problems when you are also trying to link it with CSS. Try renaming the font in your CSS so that it has a different name than the built-in Windows font.
Also, Chrome just doesn't render TTF/WOFF fonts very well. You can get around that by prioritizing the SVG font (by putting it higher up in the font list). This will make Chrome select the SVG font (but most other browsers will still use the WOFF font). See here for more information.
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I have a website, in which the fonts are appearing good in safari, but broken in Chrome and Firefox. I couldn't find which rule is overriding my font settings. Please help.
This page is live at http://alterknitnewyork.com/drop-off/
In safari, it is taking the settings from uaf.css but in chrome and firefox they are scored-out. I have no idea why it is broken. Even I tried to apply the font inline with !important tag, but no success.
It looks like you have two #font-face declarations for the "same" font. One is in MyFontsWebfontsKit.css which references a font as "Elizabeth-Italic". The other declaration, in uaf.css is referencing a font as "Elizabeth Italic". These are two distinctly different fonts.
Assuming you want the italicized font, just set the font-family to "Elizabeth-Italic" and you should be good to go.
I'd recommend removing any of the CSS files you don't need (particularly #font-face declarations), it will lessen the number of HTTP requests and make the site a bit snappier overall.
My website has very different rendering in Firefox Windows / Firefox Linux (however, similar versions, default parameters for both).
The reason seems to be that the font are rendered very differently. This:
font-family: sans-serif;
gives Arial-like font on Windows:
and a little bit different font on Linux:
How to solve this problem and have constant rendering in Firefox Win / Firefox Linux ?
(if possible, I'd like to keep the Windows rendering)
You only have defined the font name sans-serif which is not a font per se, just tells the browser to use any sans serif font the browser prefers. But even if you give a concrete font name, be aware that the installed fonts in Win / Linux are not the same. Also, the font rendering is OS dependant, so both OS might render fonts a bit differently. The best way to solve this would be to use a web font, where you have the same font files for both Win and Linux. Also gives you a lot more freedom in design, since you do not have to rely on the fonts the OS provides.
But even then, it can happen that the user chooses to use a bigger font size, and you still have rendering differences, but not as visible as with your example where you apparently have two completely different fonts.
In other words: achieving a result where each font rendering looks exactly the same is simply impossible. Thats the nature of the www.
Does any one know why some of my font families won't render on some mobile devices? Here's a page that demonstrates the fonts:
http://jl.evermight.com/font/
The fonts render properly on desktop chrome browser, ipad and iphone.
But when i view that page on my galaxy note, the Have A Nice Day font renders as something that looks like arial. On my friends nexus 4, Have a nice day works fine, but the universe condense renders as something that looks like arial.
Does anyone know why?
I've attached screenshot of what the fonts should look like
Additional notes
some people claim Have a nice day is not working in Firefox or IE10. For me, the font works on Firefox. I don't have IE10, so unable to verify.
How do I make this font work on my android?
Additional Notes
I had a typing mistake in my link path to my css files. I've corrected it now. But the problem still appears in my droid browser.
Just tried out the link on my phone - HTC 8s, everything seemed to work fine. Below is the screenshot for the same.
ON HTC 8S
ON IE 10
It's possible it's a downloading issue. The fonts listed in your declaration should work across most browsers (just make sure you're not in Opera Mini, it doesn't really support much of anything).
Additionally, Have a Nice Day is loaded through #font-face declarations in the CSS file, but the others appear to be loaded from the JavaScript, which might be part of the issue. Droid Sans is on Android phones by default, so they're likely just pulling them locally, which is why they work across the board on Android. From there, it might be a difference of JavaScript support (if Universe doesn't work, JS isn't turned on, for example).
Another thing that might help is opening up developer tools in a desktop browser that isn't working (in the case of Firefox, you'll want to pick up the Firebug extension). Check the "Net" or "Network" tab and see if your font files are getting downloaded.
If that still doesn't work, try playing around with the order of the font files in the declaration. I've seen browsers take issue with the order.
Also, the Droid Serif fonts are available from Google Web Fonts, which works cross browser with little headache. It might be worth seeing if your other fonts (or something close) are there, too, and just use Google's Web Font Loader to load your fonts.
The problem has been fixed. Apparently there was a bug on myfonts.com that corrupted my font files. I contacted myfonts.com and they corrected the issue right away. Then re-sent me the font files. Now everything works perfectly.
The guys at myfonts.com are amazing. Very good customer + tech support services.
Below is a link to how I do my #fontfaces for cross browser compatibility.
Cross Browser Fontface
I have come across an issue with Windows rendering of an Font Squirrel #fontface font (Lekton Regular).
In Chrome and Firefox it renders perfectly:
But in the same browsers in Windows (XP and 8 tested), it adds top and bottom padding:
The computed styles for both elements are the same across both browsers, on both operating systems.
Is this a known issue and is there a work around?
The problem was with the font file. The problem disappeared when I loaded an alterative (from Google Fonts)
For a site we're developing we've been using Lato from Google's WebFonts API. It works perfectly in every browser (even IE), except for one very important case: Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP (haven't tested in Win 7 yet). The font loads and is displayed, but the characters look awful, like antialiasing completely malfunctioned.
My googling has found hits about problems with webfonts in FF4 due to a bug in the browser, but I can't find anything about 3.6. Is there something we can do to fix this?
The reason Google's font looks like that has to do with a setting in the font's GASP table. This table toggles 'grayscale' and 'gridfitting' for ranges of sizes. I looked at the font Google is sending to your site and for sizes 0-13 grayscale is turned on. 14-18 is set for gridfitting, which results in black and white rendering. Then 19+ is set for both grayscale and gridfitting. I bet if you changed the size of the text to 13px, it would suddenly turn antialiased.
As for Font Squirrel fonts, we set the GASP table to render grayscale+gridfitting for all sizes above 4px.
There seems to be a difference between Google webfonts and the same font downloaded from Font Squirrel, see this (unrelated...) question.
So I would try and use the version they have at Font Squirrel to see if that solves the problem.