I have generated a font named ( Futura Std Light ) in this website (www.font2web.com) but the font doesn't work in ie.
I was generating my fonts in (www.fontsquirrel.com) and they work better in ie but the problem here is that this font is in the blacklist.
Any ideas, please ?
It is not meant to work in browsers; it has been blacklisted for a reason: using the font as a web font is a copyright infringement.
Consider using a suitable free font instead, or some other font that you may legally use.
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I'm using monospace for dollar sign my website, I get the result I'm looking for on chrome / windows and mobile phone but font render different on iOS? Why is the font display different? Is there a way to fix it?
It would be helpful if you provided the CSS code that you are using but I'm guessing you are doing something like this
font-family: monospace;
The reason this looks different on different operating systems is that "monospace" doesn't actually refer to a particular font it refers to any font where "All glyphs have the same fixed width" so each browser has a different font that it uses for "monospace".
If you would like your font to be consistent across different browsers and operating systems you will need to specify a particular font. This article from MDN explains how to specify font on the web https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text/Web_fonts
Chrome font for monospace is consolas , you can check each font using chrome://fonts. Think this might be useful to someone
I know this is an extremely basic and stupid question, but I seem to be having a genuinely curious problem.
When using what are supposed to be web-safe fonts like Didot, and using
header h1{
font-family: Didot, serif;
font-size: 36px;
}
my browser just displays the standard serif font.
In fact I can't seem to get it to display any web safe font, it will only display either the standard serif or sans-serif font. I know my selector is correct because I CAN change between serif and sans-serif, but I know its not displaying other web-safe fonts because I tried both Arial and Helvetica (which are both definitely web safe) and when I refreshed from one to another there was absolutely no difference in the font displayed.
I'm a complete beginner and I'm using the simplest possible beginner environment, just an html page linking to a css file which I'm opening with my browser (the url shows up as file:///C:/Users/Agent%201/Desktop/Web%20Projects/ResumeSite/index.html if that is at all relevant). I've tried opening it with both chrome and edge, same results on both
Is there something wrong with my css? Or are there limitations when just opening a local html file with my browser?
Sorry if I'm this is a really dumb question, but I really can't find an answer as to why my fonts aren't working, I've tried !important and some other weird solution I found which involves changing the selector to "header h1, header h1 *" and that did nothing.
Thank-you for any help you can provide me!
When using what are supposed to be web-safe fonts like Didot, and using...
Didot is not a "web-safe" font.
Didot is included with macOS, which may lead some web-designers to assume that it's also available on other platforms (like Windows, Linux and Android) or that those platforms have automatically-mapped equivalents (like how many browsers will map Helvetica to Arial), however that is not guaranteed.
Also, just because a typeface is included with an OS does not mean it is licensed to you to use commercially or in a website - you can be sued for publishing an OS-licensed font onto the public web without having your own font-license.
A "web-safe" font is a typeface that is broadly installed and supported by most contemporary browsers without the need for additional downloads or font installations.
Many typefaces are broadly installed, such as Microsoft's Core fonts for the web which are preinstalled on all Windows computers - and many other operating systems such as macOS either come with the same fonts or have very similar equivalents (e.g. Helvetica instead of Arial) which are automatically mapped by the browser.
The only way to determine if a font is "web-safe" is by doing your own leg-work and manually checking to see if all-or-most of your target users' devices have that typeface available. You can check font availability on Wikipedia and other sites:
macOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_with_macOS
Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_with_Microsoft_Windows
iOS: http://iosfonts.com/
Android: Consult Android's fonts.xml for the minimum set of stock fonts and default fallback mappings (e.g. "Helvetica" goes to "sans-serif").
You might notice that Android's font list is very... short. That's because the base Android OS isn't what ships on most peoples' phones: Google's layer on top of Android, and OEMs (like Samsung, etc) will add their own fonts on top, but I don't know where to get that list from at-present, sorry.
A "web-safe font stack" means that at least one of the fonts listed in a font-family property value can be safely assumed to be available for use, not that all of them are - nor that the first-preferred-font will be available.
And any font-family list can be made "safe" by adding a CSS fallback generic-family name to the end (i.e. specifying the least-preferred font). Those names are specified in the CSS Fonts Module and are:
serif
sans-serif
cursive
fantasy
monospace
In your case, the property font: Didot, serif is "web-safe" because it has the serif generic-family name at the end. Your visitors will only see the Didot font being used if they already have it installed on their computer, phone, tablet, etc.
If you do want to use Didot, then you need to publish it as a WOFF file and add it to your stylesheet with a #font-face rule: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/
I've got a font rendered on webkit (specifically in the text editor "Nano") and I'd like to display an OTF font that has a variant called "Garamond Premier Pro Italic Display". I believe it's a "suitcase" font.
Here's what the font looks like in Font Book:
Things I've tried:
font-variant-alternates: character-variant("ItDisp");
and
font-variant-alternates: character-variant("Garamond Premier Pro Italic Display");
No dice.
Any thoughts here? Or is this just not possible?
Unfortunatly this is not possible on the web at the time of writing.
The only real options available to use are as follows:
italic
normal
oblique
You can read up on the font-style attribute and the different things you can do with it here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-style
There are /MANY/ fonts on desktop platforms that simply will not work on the web, as the web use different file formats. It is recommended to use fonts that are specifically designed for use on the web.
Also a note that font-variant-alternates is only supported in Firefox 34+ and Safari, and as such should not be used in production.
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.
i want to add pretty fonts to my Bootstrap site. i'm a programmer, not a designer.
I googled around and ended up at Google Webfonts website. Google's own font browser does not work (all the fonts default to a serif or something) for any of my browsers (OSX Chrome, OSX Safari, Win7 Chrome, Win7 IE9), all the fonts show up the same.
why doesn't google's webfont broswer work for me? http://www.google.com/webfonts
how can i trust them to work for everyone else
what is the bulletproof way to use custom
fonts?
to i have to buy them and host them myself? is this a bad idea?
Web fonts are fonts that have been licensed specifically for web-use. Besides Google Webfonts, there are other font sites that offer free (and legal) fonts for use on the web like Font Squirrel (free), and Typekit (mostly a paid service). Font Squirrel has a lot of fonts with #face kits that can help end the "browser blues", and make it easy to host the fonts on your own server (my preference).
There's a good article on A List Apart that will help you a bunch - have a read
BTW - it's a violation of your font license to take a font from your computer and run it through a true-type converter (for use on the web)...unless you've purchased/established licensing for web-use via the font provider/manufacturer/creator, etc.
But i used them a couple of times so thought of sharing with you guys. I am just answering for How to use them?
For ex:
When you use a particular web font Archivo then you need to include its style sheet as follows
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Archivo+Narrow' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
In other way you need to install the fonts API so that you dont need to make a online request every single time.
They should be supported by most of the modern browsers.
Can't guess the reason for the first question.
Google web-fonts will work with every browser and I'm sure it is working. There are some issues.
** Fonts will be not smooth or fonts will be jugged in some browsers such as IE. Also fonts are not clear some times (Some fonts). You have to use CSS shadows ..etc to fix this.
You can use your own web-fonts. Download font and convert it to .ttf, .svg, .eot and .woff and call them in CSS with #font-face
You don't have to buy them if you are using like above example. But you will have to buy the font if it is commercial.
** You can use cufon.js too.