On the left is Chrome and on the right is IE9.
As you can see with the image above, even with the Meyer CSS Reset there are yet inconsistencies between browsers. Two examples in this image:
IE9 clearly has a darker font for just about all text.
For whatever reason, the <hr/> tags aren't lining up (but they sure are close) and that throws off the rest of the content.
Is there something more I need to do, other than applying the Meyer CSS Reset to get some more consistency between these browsers?
Additionally, with the content you see above, other than colors and font sizes, there are no margins or padding applied after the reset.
CSS
h1 {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #154995;
}
h2 {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #333333;
}
h3 {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #154995;
}
h4 {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
}
h5 {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
}
.small-text {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: regular;
color: #333333;
}
The differences you point out are all based on the fact that two different fonts are being used in your chrome and IE9 outputs. Once you tweak the css font-family so both browsers use the same font then it should be ok.
UPDATE:
After seeing your css, you're specifying only Lato font for your elements, it seems both chrome and IE9 can't find the font Lato so both are applying a default font, which is different from one to another, try specifying fallback fonts like:
font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif;
If above still give you different outputs then Lato is being picked in one browser and not other, you can check that by using:
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
for all your elements and see the output is the same on both browsers.
UPDATE 2:
Also see instructions on how to add a Lato webfont to your website:
http://www.google.com/webfonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Lato
According to me font-family you are using is probably not a system font, it's a web font so what's the thing here is 1 browser is taking up the web font and other is not, so the default Times New Roman font is used
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I am using a particular font on my website. Firefox and Chrome recognize it on the PC (locally and server), but not on mobile (Firefox and Chrome). I am using #font-face in my CSS file.
I have the fonts uploaded on the server. I don't know what to try since it does work on the computer. Any help greatly appreciated.
Here is my HTML:
<div class="welcome">WELCOME</div><div class="home">HOME</div>
Here is my CSS:
#font-face {
font-family: 'typographicaregular';
src: url('../fonts/typographica.regular-webfont.woff') format('woff2'),
url('../fonts/typographica.regular-webfont.woff2') format('woff');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;}
.welcome {
width: 47%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
font-family: 'typographicaregular', sans-serif;
font-size: .7em;
letter-spacing: 26px;
text-align: center;
color: #004391;
}
.home {
width: 85%;
padding: 0;
margin: -40px auto 0;
font-family: 'typographicaregular', sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.6em;
text-align: center;
color: #004391;
}
It should show the actual font on my Android phone and iPad, not a generic san-serif font.
This seems like a duplicate from: #font-face Not Working in Chrome for Android
The problem may be related to your font-family declaration (I can't tell because you haven't posted that part). If, for example, you had this:
font-family: fghjkjh, 'jump_startregular', sans-serif;
...Chrome for Android would simply pretend that fghjkjh is installed (but really use the default Android font) and ignore everything else. (Not sure if this is a bug or a feature.)
In which case, the solution is to move 'jump_startregular' to the front - and possibly add a local source to the #font-face block instead, which probably causes problems with other older browsers.
"Taken word for word from the link mention above"
If this doesn't work, I suggest you use google fonts instead.
I have the font-family Roboto with two different font-types (400 and 500i)
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,500i" rel="stylesheet">
I would like to implement 500i, but this:
p {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
just allows me to use the 400 font.
How can I implement the 500i without removing the 400?
Define both bold and italic on the element:
p {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-weight: 500;
font-style: italic;
}
NOTE
If you have the Roboto font installed locally you'll need to add script=all rev=2 in the following manner:
p {
font-family: 'Roboto script=all rev=2', sans-serif;
font-weight: 500;
font-style: italic;
}
If the font is installed locally the browser is going to rely on that font and ignore the web-font. This SO Post covers this. I can't say with any certainty but it seems likely that adding script=all rev=2 by default is the way to go due to the fact we don't know if our sites visitors have a particular font installed. If you navigate to the Roboto font offering and inspect (using a browsers dev-tools) the 'Medium Italic' example we see the font-family property is using script=all rev=2 by default.
<head>
<title>Privacy Policy</title>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<h2>Brief summary of our Privacy Policy</h2>
<div class="text">
<p>We value your privacy.</p>
<h3>General</h3>
CSS
body
{
background-color: black;
font-family: 'Roboto',sans-serif;
color: white;
}
h1 {
color: #fffffe;
font-size: 20pt;
letter-spacing: 0.2pt;
font-weight: 400;
}
h2 {
color: #fffffe;
font-size: 40pt;
text-align: center;
font-weight: 100;
}
1st part of the picture is what my result looks like.
2nd part is where I need to get.
3rd part is from google fonts.
You need to select the 100 font weight.
h2 {
color: #fffffe;
font-size: 40pt;
text-align: center;
font-weight: 100;
}
h1 {
color: #fffffe;
font-size: 20pt;
letter-spacing: 0.2pt;
font-weight: 400;
}
body {
background-color: black;
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
color: white;
}
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,400" rel="stylesheet">
<h1>this is an h1</h1>
<h2>Brief summary of our Privacy Policy</h2>
By default Google Web Fonts only load the weight 400.
You need to specify in the URL the others weights you want by appending them after a colon.
So for your case the url should be :
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,400" rel="stylesheet">
Source : https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started
Time to learn a thing about how fonts and CSS work together.
Single font files (so, on modern computers that's individual ttf and otf files, for the web that also includes woff and woff2 files) encode a single weight. A font like "Roboto-Regular" only contains one weight of glyphs, and so if CSS loads just that font, you can change font-weight as much as you want but it'll do nothing, because you haven't told the CSS engine what to do. It just keeps using the same font.
(2018 edit: OpenType now supports variable fonts, meaning that if the font has an fvar table it can be used to render a full spectrum of weights/variation for a typeface. Browser-support for this is still being figured out as of this edit, so that doesn't change the rest of the answer. Yet)
Instead, you need to tell the CSS engine that you need multiple, different, fonts for different weights. Google fonts does this for you if you request different weights (as noted in the other answers) but what really happens is that Google fonts generate CSS like this:
#font-face {
font-family: Roboto;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(roboto-regular.woff) format('WOFF')
}
#font-face {
font-family: Roboto;
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
src: url(roboto-light.woff) format('WOFF')
}
#font-face {
font-family: Roboto;
font-weight: 200;
font-style: normal;
src: url(roboto-thin.woff) format('WOFF')
}
#font-face {
font-family: Roboto;
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
src: url(roboto-ultra-thin.woff) format('WOFF')
}
etc.
And because of that, your browser's CSS engine now knows that why you say font-weight: 100, it needs to just that robot-ultra-thin font instead of the regular font.
"But why does this work for things like Times?"
Good question: because system fonts are already large collections of different font files. Note that when you're using CSS, you ask for a font-family. The "family" part is important: you are not asking for individual fonts, you're asking for an entire font family, and by default from that family you're asking for the style:normal, weight:normal version. Your OS is perfectly capable of finding the right single font file to hand to your browser's CSS engine for that purpose, and so when you as for font-family: Times your brower's actually loading Times-regular.ttf or something similar.
But if a font family doesn't have as many weighs as there are CSS weights, then no amount of saying "weight:100" is going to make a font-family without an ultra thin font look ultra thin. If the font resource doesn't exist (either because it literally doesn't exist, or because you forgot to teach CSS what font file you need loaded for a weight:100) the result is undefined, albeit predictable (the browser will end up using the closest matching font it does know about) and you should not be using CSS with undefined behaviour. You're on the hook to make sure it's defined =)
For the sake of design I like to use very large fonts in headings (around 70 - 85 px) To prevent that from overwhelming the page I need a really thin font. I found Poiret One on google fonts and it is categorized as a cursive family. It is a very thin, very elegant font but the default in the cursive family seems to be comic sans which is just the opposite -- very clunky, bold, and unattractive in large headings. In my css file I have:
h1 {
font-family: 'Poiret One', cursive;
font-weight: 100;
font-size: 85px;
color: #99ccff;
}
I would like to add courier new as a user default font as it is the thinnest of the web safe fonts and add the following attributes to make the character spacing similar to Poiret One so that I don't overflow my bootstrap columns:
font-family: "Courier New";
font-style: normal;
font-size: 4.8em;
font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: -0.125em;
line-height: 1.5em;
What is the css I can use to tell the browser if Poiret One cannot be viewed by the user, please use courier new with the font modifications as given above?
Looking forward to a solution. Thanks!
Use font-family like this:
font-family: 'Poiret One', cursive, 'Courier New';
When browser doesn't find Poiret One or a cursive font, then it will use Courier New font.
I am developing a website. I'm using a google font to style my page. But it's not displaying correctly. I've read up a bit on faux fonts, but I believe that only applies when the font that is needed is not supplied. I've imported my google font, code is
#font-face {
font-family: 'Titillium Web';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 600;
src: local('Titillium WebSemiBold'), local('TitilliumWeb-SemiBold'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/titilliumweb/v1/anMUvcNT0H1YN4FII8wprx7IBmrqA5IG9z8WNe77b9o.woff) format('woff');
}
My CSS for the font is
font-size:30px;
font-family: 'Titillium Web';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 600;
But I believe it's displaying a faux font. Here's the difference between an image of what it should look like on the left, and what it's displaying on the right.
My problem http://resource.theboulderdesign.com/400/homebox/gettingcompare.png
I hope someone can solve my problem.
Morgan Kenyon
It's a Chrome/Windows problem. It'll affect the font thickness and letter spacing, but you can add a white text-stroke to smooth it out:
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: white;
-webkit-text-fill-color: white;
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zzmbu/
Here's a screenshot of it:
I've also found that if you add
text-shadow:0px 0px #FF0000;
property to my CSS, it renders correctly. I don't know why though.