I'm trying to use the Avenir Next Condensed font at a weight 100 (so very light). It works fine on all browsers I've tried apart from iOS where it shows up as italics. Any ideas how to fix this?
Here's a test page, when viewed on an iPad (or the iPad simulator) the text is in italics.
<html>
<style>
div {
font-family: 'Avenir Next Condensed';
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
}
</style>
<div>Why is this italic?</div>
</html>
There's no font on iOS called "Avenir Next Condensed", there are however fonts named "AvenirNextCondensed-Italic" and "AvenirNextCondensed-UltraLight" amongst others. When you specify a font that doesn't exist it tries to fuzzy match against the fonts it has but it doesn't always get it right. Easy fix is just to specify the correct font: "AvenirNextCondensed-UltraLight" in this case.
There's a list of fonts available on iOS here: http://iosfonts.com/
Related
I use font-face in CSS with some custom font.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Some font';
src: url('Somefont.ttf');
}
html {
font-family: 'Some font';
font-size: 16px;
}
On Mac OS everything is working perfectly but on Windows the font is displayed ugly, one letter could be bigger than another. With different font-size letters are displayed differently.
Here is the print screen, the letter "r" is bigger than other letters:
I tried to fix it with different font-face options but it didn't help.
Using the normal CSS font-face does not appear to work properly on the new Windows 10 Edge browser. Works fine on IE11 and all other browsers. Has anyone else seen this? Seems like a bug in the browser.
Here’s the CSS we’ve been using.
#font-face {
font-family: "Univers";
src: url("../fonts/univers-webfont.eot");
src: local(Univers), url("../fonts/univers-webfont.eot"), url("../fonts/univers-webfont.svg"), url("../fonts/univers-webfont.ttf"), url("../fonts/univers-webfont.woff");
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
.button_black {
font-family: "Univers";
font-size: 18px;
color: #slb-off-black-1;
}
Short Answer
Put quotes around the font name when using the local("Font Name") syntax.
Explanation
"Univers" renders fine in both Edge and Firefox. Your "Please log in..." element, though, is targeting "Univers Condensed", which renders in Edge only if you use local("Univers Condensed") with quotes. That is probably because Edge is more strict that Firefox is. MDN says...
src URL for the remote font file location, or the name of a font on the user's computer in the form local("Font Name"). You can specify a font on the user's local computer by name using the local() syntax. If that font isn't found, other sources will be tried until one is found.
Some Snips
Here are some screen shots that show the problematic CSS and HTML on your site.
Univers Condensed
No Quotes on local()
I think I have found a web rendering bug for Google Fonts in Mobile (iOS 8) Safari. It seems to me that Mobile Safari adds a tiny bit of letter-spacing to all text that uses Google Fonts, or that it uses another font. It doesn't matter which Google Font I try (Open Sans). It renders correctly on all modern browsers. Tested Android, FF, Chrome, Safari.
Try to load this page on a iOS device to see what I mean. See also see code and screenshot. See this link for live review: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/430406/Temp%20%5Bok%20to%20delete%5D/Checking%20Font/index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Roboto: Looks like it gets a bit extra line-spacing in iOS Safari, though this is not possible to find in web inspector</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Arial'">Arial: Works fine in iOS Safari</h2>
</body>
</html>
I found the solution in this question: iOS 4.2+ webfont (ttf) 's bold font-weight rendering bug
Mobile Safari is buggy rendering faux font weights, if you don't set the font-weight (to eg. font-weight: 400 or font-weight: normal) You need to specifically set the css font weight for it to render correctly in mobile safari.
This is the solution.
h2 {
font-weight: 400;
}
Note that Google Web Fonts only exports the regular weight (400) by default, which can lead to Mobile Safari (and other browsers) being forced to impose faux bold.
To explicitly export bolder weights, select "CUSTOMISE" in the Google Web Font font selection pane, manually check each additional weight you require, and use the updated embed code.
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I've just had a similar problem which I resolved. I'm using the Lato font family from Google Fonts and Safari was adding letter spacing even when explicitly using font-weight: 600.
I imported only the font weights 400, 500 & 600, as these were the only weights I was using. After many hours I just decided to try also importing font weight 700 and this fixed my issue... Safari was no longer adding letter spacing when using font-weight: 600!
So even though I explicitly use font-weight: 600, Safari seemed to need the 700 variant as well to render the 600-weighted font properly. Very odd.
Need to specify font-weight
#font-face {
font-family: 'Din';
src: url('./DinRoundRegular.otf');
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 400;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Din';
src: url('./DINRoundPro-Medi.ttf');
font-size: 16px;
font-style: bold;
font-weight: 700;
}
I've been having this problem for a while now, but I notice a lot of websites seem to have a very ... it is hard to explain, their fonts have a sort of "strength" to them. Like a bold, crisp, sharp definition. For example, I cite this page:
CSS-TRICKS
The way it looks comes out beautiful; Even the image that I embedded here does not do it justice. Spending time, I traced the exact font, exact settings, EXACT everything - I tried to reproduce it, but I get a COMPLETELY different result, even in the same browser.
Using the same font, same size, same everything I know of to match, this is how it looks on my end.
The specific code I am matching is the font, sizing, weight, and line height; which is;
#import "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans:400,700,400italic";
html {
font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
line-height: 1.5;
}
I have attempted to dig deeper, and using FireFox I found a bit more context, I tried emulating that as well with some more specific code it serves up; Which is...
#font-face {
font-family: "Noto Sans";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: local("Noto Sans"), local("NotoSans"), url("http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/notosans/v4/LeFlHvsZjXu2c3ZRgBq9nD8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff") format("woff");
}
But that continues to deliver the same results.
This is true of almost every time I have ever tried to reproduce that crisp feeling from production websites - and I literally have no idea what is going on. Can anyone explain to me why my fonts never match up with these sites, even using the same code?
Using Firebug, can you confirm that the #import CSS is actually being fetched over the network?
Here's what the Firebug console looked like for me when I tried this in a simple test page that rendered the font just fine on my system: (I'm not allowed to post images yet but you can see the screen shot here: http://i.imgur.com/PW8nU3L.png)
Here is the HTML I was testing with:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#import "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans:400,700,400italic";
html {
font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
line-height: 1.5;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Hello, world
</body>
</html>
The other thing you might want to check is if it's browser-specific, i.e. does this work okay with Chrome?
I've noticed a significant difference in rending of Open Sans (Google Web Font) from Chrome, to Safari/Firefox. I attach two photos, the first being chrome and the second safari.
All I have in the stylesheet is:
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
Hope you can help, as I really like the chrome (first image) rendering but HATE the other one!!
Add to head
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
CSS rule
.btn{
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-weight:300;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
font-size: .9em;
}
I've had luck in the past using font-weight: lighter!important; on fonts that appear bolder and completely different than what they are intended to look like. Each browser interprets fonts differently. Google Web Fonts tries its best to serve the correct versions, but sometimes there are drastic changes between browsers and operating systems.
Hope this information helps! Let me know if this solution works, otherwise I can look into it further. Open Sans is a nice font for web, nice choice :)
I added directly this line im my header and it's working!
<link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
.nav > li > a {
color: #000; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600;
}
Instead of just calling the font without sizes in the Header and defining it afterward as bold, a method who doesn't work.
There is an issue where Safari renders fonts at fixed sizes and other browsers render them more exactly:
example at tech.Ozake.com
So if you request your text to be a size that falls between two of Safari's steps, you will get a different result in Safari than in other browsers.
So depending on how you declare the font sizes and how the window is sized, you will get differently-sized results.
This workaround helped me to make Open Sans to look very close in different browsers.
<script>
function loadCss(path){
var fileref=document.createElement("link");
fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
fileref.setAttribute("href", path);
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(fileref);
}
if (ViewUtil.isChromeBrowser()) {
loadCss('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600');
} else {
loadCss('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,600');
}
we are forcing a bit 'bolder' version of font for chrome
You apparently didn't reset the default browser CSS, try setting font-weight explicitly.