(Discaimer: I only learned to code alone and upload some contents.)
I retrieved a symbol for a running person and used the code to build an html file to upload. The problem is that the image appears in different ways in different browsers.
A temporary mwe example.
direct view in my site ramoneando.com
code snippet:
<h1><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI Symbol';color:black;font-size:40px;">🏃</span>runner</h1>
(Desired) Image on local browser.
Why does this happen and how can it be avoided?
I actually am OK with the variants. The worse thing is that some look to the right and others to left. I would prefer to remain with the first image, in dark filling and looking to the right.
The problem is that not every computer has the font Segoe UI Symbol installed, so the ones that don't just display the character with code 🏃 in the default font.
For example, this is what the snippet looks like on my computer
(It used the font Unicode Upper, if you're interested.)
So what you can do is any of the following:
Accept that the "Man running" symbol looks differently in different fonts and keep it the way it is
Use Segoe UI Symbol as a webfont (this may be overkill for displaying just one icon)
Or make a screenshot of the icon and turn it into a png file.
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I'm experiencing an odd rendering problem in SOME versions of Chrome when trying to render the unicode characters U+2795 thru U+2797, the Heavy Plus/Minus/Division Signs. On some versions of Chrome, the sign will render as an ugly gray with some kind of black pseudo-outline, which does not respond to CSS color commands. Here is an image:
For a sample of how it looks on every other browser I've tried, see FileFormat.info - Unicode Character HEAVY PLUS SIGN
By SOME versions, I mean, I can't seem to narrow it down to a particular version of Chrome. The same version of Chrome on two different computers running Win10 will render differently, and I can't find where the difference is.
Is this a bug in Chrome? I can't seem to find where anyone else has run into this problem. I'm trying to include this on a website, but if certain versions of Chrome render it ugly, I need to find another solution.
-- edit --
XY Problem
My purpose is to use the +/- as the "expand/collapse" markers in a collapsible accordion box where the background may be light-colored or dark-colored. I was hoping to be able to color them to match the remainder of the text without needing to resort to images, but based on the comments below I'm starting to think it may be easier to throw together an .svg, recolor it in CSS, and be done with it.
The problem is that the browser is replacing the glyphs with emoji, which will be rendered differently for each browser. Emoji cannot be colored using CSS -- the best you can do is silhouette them and color the silhouette, as described in Color for Unicode Emoji. Unfortunately, this still means that the glyphs will appear differently on different browsers, as the emoji won't render using the font you specify.
There isn't currently a way to force browsers to render glyphs instead of emoji. Appending \FE0E (as described in How to prevent Unicode characters from rendering as emoji in HTML from JavaScript?) will sometimes work, but this is not consistent, not guaranteed, and therefore not recommended.
You can provide a web font which contain the glyphs you need, but this is also not guaranteed to work, as some browsers (especially on mobile devices) will still replace them with emoji.
If you require consistent rendering, the best way seems to be to use an image instead of trying to force the browser not to use an emoji.
Please refer to this jsfiddle.
It includes text, both inside a highcharts chart and outside, where the text includes a "sun" character as shown in this page. I've also included variants both with and without variation selectors (see also here) to see what difference they make.
Outside highcharts:
<p>Embedded: ☼ ☼︎ ☼️</p>
symbols.innerHTML = '<p>Added: \u263C \u263C\uFE0E \u263C\uFE0F</p>';
Inside highcharts:
title: {
text: 'In highcharts: \u263C \u263C\uFE0E \u263C\uFE0F'
},
Now, it seems to depend on which browser you view this jsfiddle as to whether you get a coloured emoji version of the sun symbol, or a plain-text black version... or even both versions!
For example, in Chrome on a Windows desktop you get the plain version all round:
... while in Chrome on Android 7 you get part-plain and part-emoji:
I really don't like that the style of the emoji versions is completely out of my control, particularly when the style clashes horribly with the rest of the page (e.g. the sun symbol is bright orange and the equivalent moon symbol is bright blue).
So I'd like to force the page to use the plain version on all browsers in all contexts... any idea how?
It would seem completely crazy to have to resort to using images, because I want the symbols to have the same appearance as the surrounding text, including text colour (which the user can change at will). And isn't UTF-8 meant to be a character encoding rather than an emoji encoding? I have nothing against cute emojis per se, but only in the right context.
The symbols appearance depends on the font you use.
Please look at your updated jsfiddle.
I've just changed the font on all elements:
* {font-family:serif !important}
Any element can have its own font.
It's up to you which font to use. So choose the right one and tune it up.
Update
I have to clarify several points:
There are NO 'safe' or 'unsafe' fonts.
Basically font works like a key-value storage {code1 => glyph1, code2 => glyph2, ...}, input a code and get the corresponding glyph
Font may or may not contain any code-glyph pair
You can make your own font containing only desired symbols, having codes of your choice associated with glyphs of your choice e.g. \u263d can be any glyph you want, not always the moon
In css font-family: you can specify one or several font-families and/or generic-families (look here). When the style's being applied to the text the browser converts each symbol ('A', ' ' or '\u263d') to its code and tries to get the glyph from the specified font-families until the glyph has been found or no more fonts have left.
If the font contains the desired code-glyph pair we can see a glyph, if not - we can see a space, ?, an outlined rectangle, a rectangle with the code inside, etc. (depends on the browser).
In this case: {font-family:serif} for \u263d browser searches for the glyph for \u263d in all system fonts of generic-family serif. And on Android it firstly finds what you name the 'emoji'.
The solution is to find (see the jsfiddle) or to make (see the other jsfiddle) a font with the desired glyphs and apply it to the desired elements.
Hope it's helpful and clear.
The answer by Kosh Very has hit on something. Indeed, changing the font-family on all elements to serif does indeed result in the plain symbol being used in highcharts, even in Android 7. The trouble is, in actual use I cannot stick to a single "safe" font family... the font can be specified by the user, from any web font listed on Google fonts.
I've updated the jsfiddle to include loading and use of a web font:
// see https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader
WebFont.load({
google: {
families: ['Fresca:400']
}
});
And I use that font throughout, both inside and outside highcharts. The result on Windows Chrome is as before (plain text symbols all over), but now the result in Android 7 Chrome is:
So this now rather suggests that the issue isn't highcharts-specific after all, and more of a font issue as Kosh Very as indicated. Indeed in the original example, without any font stated explicitly, the font used in highcharts is different to that used outside... and probably hence the difference in symbol style.
But I've tried a couple of other completely different web fonts in the updated jsfiddle example, with the same result. In other words, the emoji sun symbol is not apparently coming from the font itself. Perhaps when a font is missing a particular character (these fonts probably don't have a character for every unicode value) then it reverts to using characters from the system font? From other discussions it seems that these coloured emojis might only show on Samsung devices, so maybe the system font on Samsung has these?
The solution (or workaround) seems to be use a "safe font" only where required (for the graphical characters), and your desired font elsewhere, as per this updated jsfiddle, which gives the following result on Android 7 Chrome:
BUT I've hit a snag with this solution... it works nicely for the sun symbol as above, but for the very next unicode character (moon symbol) it doesn't... so maybe that symbol is missing from the serif font family and it reverts again to system emoji.
jsfiddle with moon
So the solution is probably still very patchy... maybe only limited to certain symbols.
Even for a font like Cardo that apparently supports the moon character \u263d, this example doesn't work in Android Chrome... still get the coloured emoji version rather than the plain version.
I've got a Typekit font running on my website, but it get's cut-off. Doing nothing unorthodox — just imported it.
Might be best to just show it, so check out the link below.
Check the the last "t" in this photo.
In my website, I want my header to use the 'Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold' font. However, I am only able to create a font using 'Tw Cen MT Condensed' even with adding the bold effect, it does not look the same. I created the banner in photoshop and now I want to replicate the text in CSS.
Below is the link to my current code on Fiddle. Below that is an example of the text I want to create via Photoshop.
Also, is there a way so that I can include the same pattern from my background onto the text?
If all else fails, I could just upload the text itself as an image onto the website, but I would only do that as a last resort.
Thanks.
Link to Fiddle
Banner I want to create
Your going to need to find a web font version of that font for the best results, you can google for it or if the license for the font allows you to create one you can do that.
A good one is
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
And you'll have to include those files alongside your html and css to load it, otherwise someone who doesn't have the font won't be able to see it and the system will default to a different font.
Unfortunately, it won't work because the font is "non-standard"--as has already been explained.
To get the look you want, create the text banner you want in your image editor (Photoshop?) and save it as a ".png" image file, directing Photoshop to "keep transparency" (I'm using a different image editor, so the command wording will probably be different in Photoshop). To minimize file size, set the image frame bars as close to the font as you can (the more area a ".png" covers, the greater the file size--clear space included--and the size difference seems to increase exponentially [by square]).
All you'll have left to do is manipulate the position of the text banner in the div (float, padding, margin, etc.).
I know this is isn't the answer you want, but it works--and you don't have to worry about contingency code for different browsers, script blockers, etc. (you still have to code for the few who still block images and for accessibility standards, but IMHO it's more effective--and cleaner--than writing contingency code and having to allow for the variability between this font and the widest/narrowest contingency font in your designated family.
At least one part of your page will render the same in just about every browser.
Never seen before that url bar would change its font, but if you go to the following link in Chrome, you would see that "New Features" is written in different font:
Copying url into text file reveals some magic symbols:
http://g-wiki.net/wiki/Battlefield_3%EF%BC%9ANew_Features
Can anyone explain why it changes font and what else can I do with this technique (can I make red bold letters)?
That's a full-width colon character. The only difference should be that it takes more horizontal space; it's not supposed to affect the font and it doesn't do so for me. However, because it's missing from many fonts, some operating systems might switch to a different font or rendering mode in order to display that character, and may continue to apply this change to subsequent text.
I've noticed this before in instant messaging. I'll copy some Chinese characters into my message, and the rest of it will be displayed differently. It's the same effect and I'd consider this to be a bug in the the operating system/font routines. It's probably not been deliberately programmed.