I'm working on this site and I have this CSS
.n2-font-d7df9860b9d2e958d0b5b8dadd6b6bd5-paragraph{
font-family:'HelveticaNeue', 'Helvetica Neue', serif !important;
}
This targets the text on the front page image (please don't ask about the selector - its generated by a plugin!). I need to use the Helvetica Neue font and I believe its supported in iOS (iosfonts.com). It looks fine on desktop browsers, but the font-family is ignored on iOS (in Safari) and renders as a flat sans-serif font.
I've tried listing various alternatives but with no success. I am using iOS 9.2.1 which is the latest.
Can anyone say why I'm having this issue? And how to make it apply the correct font? I'm about ready to smash stuff... Thanks for any advice.
I am using Open Sans and Open Sans Light font in my site.
And below is the googleapis font link which I am rendering from google fonts.
I want to use Open Sans Light and Open Sans font in some of the text.
If i choose open sans 300,400,600.
and use font name in the class and add font-weight:300 for light and 400 for regular
it doesn't work for ie7 and 8. It shows the big font on ie 7.
but by using font-weight related to the font styling works fine for other browsers.
Need help to fix this for ie7 and 8.
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
With Google fonts you won't be able to solve this problem.
The problem is that IE7/8 understands only
font-weight:700 which it interprets as equivalent of font-weight:bold
and
font-weight:400 which it interprets as equivalent of font-weight:normal.
A solution to this is to serve a separate font file to IE7/8 which contains the desired font face weight - google fonts foes not offer this kind of fallback - but it is very nicely solved with Typekit, which than let's you use this kind of crossbrowser font face rule:
font-family: "proxima-nova-n6", "proxima-nova", sans-serif;
font-weight: 600;
The first declaration - "proxima-nova-n6" - provides a fallback for IE7/8 for a weight of 600.
If you want to solve this without paying for a service, you will have to create separate font files containing different font width - upload them to fontsquirell and generate the complete set of formats needed to cover all the browsers. Take care with licenses - not all font's are free to embed on web.
Making a mobile website, for my main website. And all my code shall be W3C validated. I use Verdana as font, and any body knows that MAC/Iphone/Ipads don't have that font. So I thought what if I just overwrite the font. But what if:
One: Will the code be W3C? Answer: YES.
Two: Will it work on all mobile platforms/browsers? Answer: IDK you tell me, new in this world.
Here is the CSS code i want to use:
#font-face
{
font-family: jsverdana;
src :url('fonts/verdana.ttf')
,url('fonts/verdana.eot'); /* IE9 */
}
body{
background-color :#FFFFFF;
background-image :url('/media/common/newbgtest.gif');
font-family :jsverdana,helvetica, sans-serif;
margin :0;
padding :0;
min-width :600px;
}
And yes, i did convert the font "Verdana" This is tested on Iphone 4, and Ipad 1.
Different devices require different font formats, so you should use services like FontSquirrel to generate all of them (and the CSS code for using them), if you use a downloadable font (web font).
On the other hand, Microsoft has copyright on Verdana, so you would need their permission to use it as downloadable font (and even to convert it to other formats).
A more realistic approach is to try and find a suitable free font, perhaps of the fairly nice sans-serif fonts at Google Web Fonts. Or maybe just let each device that hasn’t got Verdana use its own sans-serif font instead (which is what happens when you set font-family: Verdana, sans-serif).
Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I am quite new to html, have made a complete site and uploaded to web server.
But i tried visiting the site on another device, and the font shows differently, but then when i go onto a website which has a different font it shows fine on their site.
Am i doing something wrong?
Cheers
Adam
Because the computer doesn't have that font, and you didn't include the font to download, just an instruction as to which one to use.
The CSS #fontface instruction lets you direct a browser to a file with a font.
A simpler and lighter approach, is to suggest back-ups. E.g. Instead of:
font-family: arial;
You could use:
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
The first will try to use Arial, and if it isn't available, will just use the default font for the browser (which could be a serif font like Times, for example).
The second will try to use Arial. If that's not available, it will try to use Verdana. If that's not available, it will try to use the default sans-serif font for the browser, which should at least be closer than a serif font.
Here is a great tutorial on how to create custom fonts on a website.
http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/how-to-achieve-cross-browser-font-face-support/
It will also explain which types of fonts are compatible on certain browsers
Can I use "Arial Rounded MT Bold" with css ?
font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Nothing Changed when I put :
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Google Fonts has Nunito, by Vernon Adams:
http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Nunito
It's nice and rounded; sort of reminds me of what they're using on Glitch.
It's hard to know without more information from the OP but I've seen these same symptoms caused by the hardware acceleration feature in Firefox. It's been know to cause several problems with font rendering. One I've observed is failing to render a non-standard font (such as "Arial MT Rounded Bold") despite it being present on the client machine.
For example, this page...
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body { font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold"; font-size: 30px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
This can be really annoying.
</body>
</html>
When viewed in IE, Chrome or FF with hardware acceleration turned off the font appears correctly, like this...
But when viewed in FF with hardware acceleration enabled the browser fails to "find" the specified font so it defaults to another, like this...
There have been issues with this "feature" of FF since version 4.
Probably the best solution is to either use a different (standard) font or (as Kent suggests) find a similar web font that will work in all modern browsers. Alternatively, like many font issues, the problem can be mitigated by supplying a list of font families to use as fall-backs.
I've seen an alternative Google Font suggested here from back in 2011 which is a pretty good match but there are some thin parts to the font which aren't the same as the Arial Rounded MT Bold.
For people still looking for an alternative I think this one is a better match; its called Varela Round by Joe Prince:
Varela Round
I would also set it in font-weight: bold; for a more accurate match.
To use custom fonts with good cross browser compatibility, take a look at FontSquirrel. They will generate the correct CSS to get custom fonts working cross browser. Take a look around their site for Rounded MT Bold or whatever else you want :-) Also, if you want more fonts, take a look at http://www.fontex.org/
Google Fonts is also a possibility. There are a lot of different fonts but I don't know whether there's exactly Arial Rounded MT Bold.
You can use only fonts which are installed at the clients computer!! So just mentioning them in the css font-family doesn't work if the font is not installed. For this, Google Fonts and others bring the functionality... so everytime you use a font that is not "Times", "Arial" or "Verdana", which are installed on nearly every computer, you should think about an alternative to raw css
There's a good chance that — if nothing changed (on your local browser's rendering of the webpage) when you changed the font stack — that you don't actually have Arial MT Rounded Bold installed on your computer. One way to test this is to use Firebug, to 'inspect element' for the headline (or whatever the font is applied to), and to edit the font-family listing in the right-hand Firebug pane. (Usually, I just find the named font and add a space into the name of it, which "breaks" the call to the proper font, and the browser then moves on to the next font in the stack.)
Other options include using Google's web-font Nunito (as Kent Brewster recommended a few minutes ago), or setting up a font-face font on your own server, providing one of the rounded fonts (RockoFLF Bold, FF Din Rounded, Nunito, and Arial MT Rounded Bold are all options). (Technically, per Kent's comment, Glitch is using RockoFLF, with Arial MT Rounded Bold as the second font in the stack. At least, that's what they were doing a few months ago when I last looked at their code. ... Oh ... just checked again, and they've dropped the Arial MT Rounded Bold out of the stack. They're calling RockoFLF with an embedded font-face.)
Anyway, as Kent Brewster noted, I think your best bet is to use Google Web Fonts' 'Nunito', if you aren't sure that it'll be on your users' computers (or even your own).
It may not appear because of system compatibility - you can check out Arial Rounded MT Bold on CSS Font Stack for compatibility. There's a 59.53% on Windows and 95.14% on Mac. https://www.cssfontstack.com/Arial-Rounded-MT-Bold
Its worth noting that Linux doesn't come with Arial by default so one should not rely on a font being present on a users computer. Instead they should download the files (license permitting), host them on their site and link to them using #font-face.