Questions tagged [font-faces]
For questions about @font-face, a rule used in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to specify fonts used for text. Questions about using font-faces in programming are off topic and should be asked on stackoverflow.com. Questions about using font-faces in graphic design may be more suited to graphicdesign.stackexchange.com.
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Roboto regular font face is rendered as bold
I've installed the Roboto typeface on my system but it turns out that the default, regular face is rendered as black, even though in the thumbnail it appears to be lighter. This happens on all ...
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Why is emacs not running (set-face-attribute ...) in init.el, even though the rest of the buffer is executed?
I've got (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 100) in my init.el because I find the default font size a little too large. However, it doesn't get executed when emacs is loaded.
I don't have an ...
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How can I determine what font faces are available for me to use with Sublime Text 3?
I would like to change the font face in Sublime Text.
How can I see what options are available for me to change it to?
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Renaming Fontfaces
How do I rename a font style in an OTF font?
I have this bug here:
I now can't select any other style except "Regular".
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How to write music theory symbols in Evernote?
I want type my music theory class notes in Evernote but I can’t seem to figure out how to do this correctly. I have managed to put following symbols in Evernote just by copy and pasting but some as ...
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Ligatures broken on Firefox?
I just typed "stackoverflow.com" into the URL bar of Firefox (on Manjaro Linux), and saw this:
With experimentation, I found that Firefox is replacing all sorts of ligatures with (seemingly) random ...
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Windows 8 Font Stack [closed]
Are there any new fonts in Windows 8 compared to Windows 7?
Is there any place I can get a complete/diff list, perhaps even with some previews?
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How do I pick a custom font in Lyx?
How do I pick a custom font using LyX? All I see are options to pick Roman/Serif/Typewriter and then a few preset faces. I have hundreds of fonts on my system and want to be able to use them.
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Increasing font/typeface size in Windows Live Mail (Windows 7)
I am a handicapped user. As my handicap progresses, I find the font/typeface size used in the read panel is progressively harder to read. I already have the font size set to "largest". Is there a way ...
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What happened to my X fonts? The newer OS has a "weaker" font weight for "Monospace 10"
I'm upgrading from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux 9 (Rocky, Alma, RHEL, etc) and the terminal fonts are notably different. (I'm using Mate for the WM, but I don't think it matters for fonts, or does it?).
I ...
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Safari disallow the use of certain @font-faces
Is there a way for a user to not allow the use of certain @font-faces in the css of a Webpage? My first thought was using Safari's user style sheets but I don't know how I could over-ride certain ...
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Font used for HTTP errors
What is the font used in HTTP status codes?
This font (I created a demo html file):
I've tried searching:
Inside Safari application bundle
DuckDuckGo-ing 'http font'
Any help appreciated!
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How may I more easily change the fontFace in Windows Terminal?
I've installed a few console fonts from Github for Windows Terminal, but when I go to Settings to select them I get dialog to wit that 'the selected font is not found' and am advised to install the '...
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Making Windows text larger (easier to read) without getting text cropped off
I have old tired eyes and a super hi res screen and want to make text larger. I've already increased the Font DPI, but if I make it too big then text gets cut off in some programs.
I'm hoping that ...
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Web fonts not rendered on Firefox
I'm on Firefox 42.0 and web fonts (icons) are not rendered for FontAwesome framework :
or on Github :
And many others websites.
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@font-face not working in Wikipedia?
Wikipedia has changed its font-family for the Languages panel, and it doesn't render very well in Chrome. So I wanted to hard-code in the Custom.css with another font, but I haven't got success.
This ...
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Why is my system (Ubuntu) using FreeSans font for sans-serif/arial/helvetica web rendering?
Recently, I noticed that my web browsers (Chrome, Firefox) are using a strange font for all the sans-serif/helvetica/arial/etc. text. I believe it's FreeSans, after inspecting a bunch of fonts. It ...
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change the name of a font on os x
i was reading an excellent article on HTML5, and the title of the page and section headers had a very distinct font. However, whereas fancy fonts on webpages are historically just images of text, the ...
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Google turns up with bold font in Firefox
After I played some ol' skool games like Age of Empires I, Google turned up with bold font in Firefox (any version).
I'm running Windows 7 x64, and application restart or system reboot isn't helping.
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