Questions tagged [fonts]
Quantity of sorts composing of a complete character set of a single style of a particular typeface.
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application specific fonts settings in Linux Ubuntu 10.04
system -> appearance gives the fonts dialogue which I use to set fonts for the entire gnome session. Is there a way I can setup fonts for a specific application.
I have imported fonts from the ...
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Courier New with font size 14 not working for command prompt on Windows XP
I have set Courier New as the font in the command prompt. When I selected the font with size 12, it works, but the font size is very tiny. When I change the size to 14, it won't work; it is set back ...
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Convert .suit to .ttf
Is there a way to convert a Mac .suit font file to a Windows .ttf file (or some other Windows accessible file)?
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anyone recognize the font style? [closed]
I have been trying to find the font style/type used in this company's title:
Anyone recognize it?
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How do you find all uses of a font in a PDF or Illustrator document
I have a collection of Illustrator files which get collected into a single PDF. Having attempted to remove all uses of a specific font throughout, I find that the font is still being embedded. How can ...
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Opentype fonts in OpenOffice
How to get opentype fonts in .otf format working on Ubuntu and OpenOffice 3.2?
It would be great if I could use opentype features in OOo, but I'll be glad enough if I could use them even converted to ...
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Linux: No fonts match '9x15' when starting emacs
I get the message
No fonts match '9x15'
when trying to run emacs and a linux box. I messed something up a while back, but I do not know how to fix this issue. Any ideas?
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Using installed arabic fonts on Windows XP
I recently installed This arabic font package (for the coolness!) and I want to try writing with it but they show up as BOXES in Word 2007.
Why? how can I make the glyphs show up properly?
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Fonts still missing in Flash after cleaning caches
I was having a problem with missing fonts in Flash CS4, so I cleaned the font caches using the following commands in Terminal:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -...
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Convert Mac font to Windows format?
I have a font that was used on Mac OS X 10.5. Mac recognizes it as a font file. Windows Vista shows it as a "File".
Changing the file extension doesn't work. I tried both .otf and .ttf and neither ...
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Is there a way to change Firefox's default textbox font?
Is there a way to change Firefox's default Textbox font? Because that option is not in Options -> Content -> Advanced. Like here: http://www.google.com.tw/
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Control truetype font tracking in fontforge
I'm designing a font intended to be used mainly as a subtitle font. It's a sans-serif font not unlike Helvetica.
The em size is 2000 (I know it "should" be 2048 for a truetype font), the ascent/...
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Is there a character map utility for Linux that works with terminal fonts? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid. I'd like to see a charmap of the "fixed" font -- you know, like "xterm -font fixed". However, I can't seem to get it to work with any of the standard Linux character-map ...
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ffmpeg drawtext - Arabic fonts doesn't render correctly
What I'm trying to achieve:
Loop an image into a video and overlay Arabic Text from the Qur'an on it including the text diacritical mark, using a custom font.
Example of the text to be rendered:
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Why does adding an entry into a table result in the font size changing in a cell that is populated using Xlookup to extract entries from that table?
I created a table that is updated with new entries, thus changing size with each new table entry. Xlookup is used to pull entries from the table. The cells where the entries are stored is set to ...
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How to fix error unable to read font in ImageMagick/Debian?
I'm running ImageMagick in WSL Debian and Ubuntu. I'm trying to write some text with ImageMagick but I getting font errors in both WSL linux versions:
$ magick -background lightblue -fill blue -font ...
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Excel treats unicode characters as text
I have received an excel file which contains data from government website, whose text is in Hindi language.
When I open the csv file, it displays the hindi texts in unicode characters like the ...
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Unable to Change Font Size of Inkscape Guideline Label
Introduction
I've successfully created labeled guidelines in Inkscape (version 1.1.1) using the following steps:
Guidelines can be created by dragging from either of the rulers.
Upon double-clicking ...
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Font family automatically resets to default (Calibri) as soon as I start typing
Here is what I'm experiencing, in Windows 11:
open a blank Wordpad document, type some text in it;
select all, and set the font family to anything other than 'Calibri' (e.g. Trebuchet MS);
put the ...
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Text printed-to-pdf and copied-pasted back gets totally scrambled
Can anybody explain why my (admittedly absurd) following text is getting scrambled:
"A sticky offbeat platform lift is often better than a cliffhanger fjord like Loefke.".
I have entered ...
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Windows program uses incorrect (bold) font
I have program running on windows 10 which refuses to use correct font. I could only find 3 similar cases on entire web and solutions provided are not helpful, which is driving me nuts.
It appears the ...
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Huge File Size with Embedded Font (Used Characters Only) in PowerPoint
I have a PowerPoint file. I used 2 custom fonts on my document, so I decided to embed the fonts in the file using the "Embed Fonts" option available in PowerPoint.
Settings Screen
Without ...
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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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Convert a PDF to greyscale on the command line *without* bit rasterization
Strongly related to Convert a PDF to greyscale on the command line in FLOSS?
My go-to command has been
gs \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 \
-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer \
-dBATCH \
-dNOPAUSE \...
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How do I change Windows Lock/Login Screen fonts? What options do I have for resetting them?
Somehow, the font on the Windows Lock/Login screen changed, and I can no longer sign in to any user on that device because it simply resets to the Lock screen. My best guess on the specifics is that ...
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Can't change font, i3
I'm using i3 on ArchCraft. I previously successfully set my font to Terminus, now I want to change it to Google Sans. I tried:
set font option in i3 config to "font pango:IBM Plex Mono Italic 10&...
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Edit font to vertically center glyphs
I would like to edit a web font to adjust the alignment so that capital letters and numbers are exactly vertically centered. All glyphs of that height should have the same number of pixels above and ...
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Google Chrome fonts are messed up on some websites
I noticed recently the fonts used on some websites started to look worse. For example on vimeo https://vimeo.com/783454352:
Is it possible this is caused by installing a font locally on my computer? ...
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Windows 10, 11, 2019, 2022 Resource Monitor DPI settings
After Windows 7/2008 i found, that new Windows on 4k monitors with 150% fonts scale makes old Windows app blurry, for most i found solution via '~ HIGHDPIAWARE' registry option (mmc.exe and all child ...
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Solving the 20 year old "Microsoft Excel distorts images when printing" bug [closed]
There are many posts about this on the internet. Here are a few:
[SU] Microsoft Excel -- Images distorted when printing
Images distorted when previewing or printing from Excel - Microsoft Community
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How to deprioritize a font on Linux?
I have been studying Akkadian and therefore need to write cuneiform text on Linux. I have installed a cuneiform font for this purpose.
However, it seems that there is another font called "...
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How to identify the specific font file that my browser used to render an element?
Is it possible to identify the specific font file that my browser used to render the text in an element?
The back story is that a web page (from a Chrome extension) renders an element using this style ...
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Unable to uninstall a font in Windows 10 - SOLVED (ish)
UPDATE: When I went back to get screenshots, without me doing anything, the font, along with two others I was trying to track origins for, had disappeared.
I do not know for sure, but right now I'm ...
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Google Chrome font won't change after changing font settings
I'm trying to change my font for google chrome, so I go onto font settings and change my fonts to what I want, but then when I restart my browser, the font hasn't changed at all, so I check the font ...
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Installing custom fonts for the xfce terminal
I would like to run an ASCII game in the terminal, but it requires the text to be perfectly square to look proper, how would I download and install a square font on the xfce terminal?
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How would I visually alter only the Capital letters in my editor?
I find camel case difficult to read at times and have been scouring the internet for a way to be able to specifically alter the visual appearance of strictly the capital letters in camel/pascal case ...
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A single font displaying incorrectly after moving from Win8.1 to Win10
I recently moved from Windows 8.1 to a clean install of Windows 10. To ensure I don't lose any fonts in the process, I copied all TTF and OTF files from Win 8.1 (AppData/Local) and have now ...
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What's 'Custom' in chrome's Customize fonts setting?
When I look into chrome's settings > Appearance > Customize fonts, I see that "Custom" is selected under "Standard font", "Serif font" and "Sans-serif font&...
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No uninstall button for Google font in Windows' font settings
In Windows' font settings Roboto, Roboto Condensed, and Roboto Slab are listed but no uninstall button is provided.
Based on a similar Super User question, here's what I've tried to no avail:
Using ...
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special characters not rendering well in zsh
I'm running rxvt-unicode, with zsh + ohmyzsh.
I just installed firacode, verified font name with fc-cache and set URxvt*font: xft:FiraCode in ~/.Xresources, and ran xrdb ~/.Xresources.
Then I ...
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Inconsistent font sizes across different contexts in windows
I have a font-size problem that is driving me crazy. The image below illustrates the problem perfectly
You can see that the font size in the menu is a good size but in the 'Word count' window it is ...
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Font available in MS Word is missing from the system fonts folder
(Google only provides solutions for the opposite problem)
In Microsoft Word (Desktop) I have fonts like for example "Bierstadt".
When I look in C:\Windows\Fonts\ that font is not there. I ...
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Override font smoothing (antialiasing) method in Google Sheets grid (Firefox)
How to override font smoothing used in Google Sheets grid to make fonts sharp (as everywhere else on a page)?
As you can see from the screenshot below, most of the elements use sharp font (standard ...
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How do I remove the small gaps in a foreign alphabet font on Linux?
Since it is notoriously stable, I use Debian for work (I'm a mathematician). Now, I've found a very nice font for the predominant script of India (which is Devanagari), and it's called "...
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How to set full-pixel anti-aliasing in Firefox?
Is it possible to change the web pages font rendering method in Firefox on Windows to something
other than sub-pixel?
I want normal full-pixel antialiasing instead of sub-pixel, but I can't find an ...
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How do I prevent certain characters from messing up spacing in terminal emacs, nano, etc in WSL2?
Consider the file
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin non
velit sem. Fusce rhoncus eros eget mi blandit, in ultricies mi
sollicitudin. Nam nec justo sollicitudin, varius ...
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How to discover the page code to show a specific character in MSDOS/Batch?
I made a batch-file snake game and inserted some special characters via HEX to ANSI conversion in Notepad++.
It worked normally. But I noticed that there was an update to the Consolas font and two of ...
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How to force Windows to use regular/italic versions of a font correctly?
I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question.
I have downloaded the OTF font Celestia Antiqua Std Regular and its corresponding Italic version.
If I install only the Regular version, I can ...
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Can an installer be created to auto install a font on a Mac?
I created a font which works equally well on Windows and Mac. For Windows, I created an installer package; when the user downloads the package and clicks on the .exe file it automatically installs ...
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xterm: circled numbers (U+2460-U+2470) only the left half of the glyph is displayed
I am using the version of xterm that ships with ubuntu 21.04 (package xterm361-1ubuntu3) and some characters such as circled numbers are not displayed correctly: the right half of the character is ...
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