Questions tagged [web-safe-fonts]
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Is Rockwell a web safe font?
Recently we received a mockup for a website from a client that makes extensive use of the Rockwell font all over the layout for menu items, articles titles, block titles, etc...
I never heard of that font before and I assumed that it wasn't web…
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Web Safe Fonts Alternatives to Montserrat and Lato
A web design company design website for me. However, it largely uses Google font Montserrat and Lato, which lead to totally 40 font files(about 1.4MB) to be loaded when users open my website. And based on GTMatrix, 82% data transfer and 56.1%…
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Can someone explain why using web safe fonts in CSS doesn't seem to work for me?
I know this is an extremely basic and stupid question, but I seem to be having a genuinely curious problem.
When using what are supposed to be web-safe fonts like Didot, and using
header h1{
font-family: Didot, serif;
font-size: 36px;
}
my browser…
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embeding fonts or changing to safe font?
whats the better solution for embeding fonts problem?
drink a lot of vodka and try to embed custom font on web site or just leave that idea and use some web safe font?
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What are the web safe Arabic fonts that will work across all the old and new browsers?
I'm looking for a web safe font list for Arabic, but they should work across all the browsers including old browsers and IE. I know that Arial will do my work, but are there any other fonts?
Thanks
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Neo Sans Pro websafe alternative
In our current project we were given a sets of web designs, but those included Neo Sans Pro font, however, we can not use that one - is there a websafe alternative for that?
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Are emojis web safe?
I want this character . It shows up perfectly in IE9+, FF, Chrome and Edge.
According to http://caniemoji.com/ support is pretty good for modern browsers on any platform.
Can I just use the emoji instead of linking to an image?
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Web safe fonts not working in emailers for gmail
I am trying to use web safe fonts like:'Tahoma','Lucida','Helvetica' in an emailer for gmail but its not working everything is falling back to 'Arial'. I have tried 'inline css' but still no success but I have seen a mailer from 'Apple' using…
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Why does browsers render only some locally installed font but not all?
Was testing a locally installed font for my websites header font-family: 'Vladimir Script'. However chrome did not render the text in Vladimir Script. When, I specified Calibri (also locally installed) as the text's font-family then chrome did style…
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Web safe small caps font for both mac and windows
I am trying to find a web safe small caps font for both Windows and Mac for a project I am working on. I have tried using Copperplate as suggested here http://www.cssfontstack.com/, but have found that on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 the support is…
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web-safe fonts in Flex 4
I need to adapt the style of a flex app to the style a given HTML/JS/CSS Web App. One problem I faced is the Font ‘Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif’. How can I set such rare Fonts in Flex?
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