I have a chart in a dashboard I am creating.
I have been using the Calibri font (my bad).
The font in the chart looks different from the font in the tables and text boxes.
I added the textbox on top with the same font, weight and size to see the difference.
Is there someway to make them look the same? Arial doesn't look so blocky in a chart.
Or a way to determine which fonts render normally in a chart?
The reason this occurs is because that chart is being rendered as an image. The font choice and size impacts the differences between the image and the browsers interpretation of the chosen font. You might be able to adjust the weight and or make a bolder section to hide the difference. Sticking with true type fonts is usually a safe bet.
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I'm trying to use the Oxygen font from Google Fonts in my website, but I'm having strange problems with it.
Firstly, it doesn't seem to want to render at certain sizes, like I can't make it 19px. It will do 18px or 20px, but not 19px.
I also notice that the heights of the letters are borked. Take a look at the attached pic, how the 'S' is out. That's a screengrab of the font at 19pt. However, everything is 18px tall except the 'S' which is the one thing that sticks out to 19px.
And at larger sizes to this, other letters start antialiasing oddly too.
Whether I try ems or pxs or pts, I'm getting these glitches.
If you go to Google Fonts and search for Oxygen at the left and type in some text at larger sizes, it does the same thing, strange S's, etc. But strangely, if you search for specimens of this font in Google Images, it seems to render and antialias much better than this (Oxygen specimens in Google Images). Any way to fix it or is this font broken at source?
I hate to tell you but the font is broken at the source. It was obviously made unprofessionally or designed to be exactly that way. I'd recommend just using a new font or dealing with it as a regular user wont exactly mind it. Maybe a web analyst would but it's a nice font to a normal user.
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.
For specific reasons, I need to be able to display some values on the bottom half of my report upside down(inverted). The intention of this report is to be printed and folded down the middle, so I would like for it to adhere to this specific format. I can't find anything that does this easily. Some ideas that I have considered but don't know how to implement:
'importing' an upside-down font and setting the control's font to that font?
somehow inverting the entire control 180 degrees
Does anyone have any experience accomplishing this?
Edit: installing an upside down font and setting the control source's font property to that font was the solution that I implemented. For some upside down fonts, it may be necessary to call str_reverse on the text, as the upside down font may reverse the order Problem is-- This would only work on the computer with the font installed, right?
I think your options are:
Lebans: http://www.lebans.com/
Word mail merge
An upside down font
An image.
Access has a Vertical property, but that is only for 90°.
I have some text on my website that I would like to make 'bold', and its font-size to be 'x-small'. But whenever I apply the font-size, the text loses its bold. When I remove the font-size, and the text goes back to default, it's bold again. What's going on here?
<span style="font-size:x-small; font-weight:bold;">TESTING</span
Have you tried other font families? If I remember correctly, Arial in small sizes looks the same in bold and normal weights. Give Verdana a shot.
the thing is that true type fonts DO render differently on various sizes.
If you have bitmap fonts, its just resampled to whatever size necessary.
TTF are based on vector graphics and can be scaled to any size needed.
However there are, depending on the font family, differences in how the font is rendered in different sizes.
Theese changes are intentionally and coded by in by the designer of the font.
Usually lines get thinner the smaller the font is rendered, this could cause the effect you are experiencing. You can try different fonts, but rest assuered that, unless you use certified standardized fonts, there is no guarantee of how they will be rendered.
Some font families will appear as normal when you shrink them.
Try using Type Tester to see exactly how your fonts look. It will use the web safe ones as well as what's on your machine if your using #font-face.
http://www.typetester.org/
While generating charts using RS 2008 betas, RC0 and such., I never specified any fonts for axis labels, legends etc. They were all rendered with the Arial font by default, which looked awesome. But as soon as we switched to RS 2008 final, the fonts got all messed up - they are rendered in some kind of bold console font.
My initial thought was that the default changed - I tried setting the font to Arial explicitly (either through RDL or the designer). That didn't work - only certain fonts seem to work (e.g. Calibri). What's even more weird, the legend does not listen to the font setting - it is always rendered in this ugly bold thing.
One other thought was maybe the fonts are missing somewhere, however, the Tablix element is using the same fonts and they seem to work.
This behaviour is universal - it is seen using the development studio preview, the report viewing control and while exporting it to all available formats.
So, obviously, I'm stuck - has anyone ever encountered this behaviour ?
I have seen this behaviour before. Not in SSRS, but in GDI+ rendering in .NET desktop applications. It has to do with antialiasing and palettes that don't support transparency - all the nearly-transparent pixels surrounding the glyphs are coerced to solid colour.
You don't get this effect with post-LCD fonts like Calibri because they are aligned to pixel boundaries for better rendering on LCD displays, which have sharply defined pixels. CRTs allowed colour to bleed into adjacent pixels, producing what was essentially analog antialiasing. (This is why TV pictures look much better than they should considering their horribly low resolution.)
I did find a way around it with GDI, and when I remember I'll tell you. That said, you don't have access to the rendering code so you probably can't apply the fix. Actually I think I've just remembered - you explicitly set the background to white rather than transparent, forcing GDI to composit the edge colours instead of hoping the graphics card will do it. I don't know whether you'll be able to use this answer, sorry.