Questions tagged [fonts]
Quantity of sorts composing of a complete character set of a single style of a particular typeface.
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MS Word: Set style font size to default / from underlying properties
When I create a style in Word, the font size of the style gets set to whatever the font size of the text I've selected is. e.g. if I create a style while 13pt text is selected, the new style text will ...
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How can I make the fonts in Firefox web browser looks like in chromium based browsers? [Windows 10]
I don't know why the font looks soo rough and overshooted. Take a look:
Google Chrome printscreen of Apple II series' Wikipédia page
Mozilla Firefox printscreen of Apple II series' Wikipédia page
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How to print the list of fonts used in a presentation in LibreOffice Impress and / or Microsoft Powerpoint
When I copy presentations between different machines some of the characters change into Chinese characters or various different strange letters with dashes, chapos etc.
I suspect that these ...
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After upgrade to Fedora 34, All the letters in system programs are replaced by their hexadecimal representations
All the letters in system programs are replaced by their hexadecimal representations. I suppose that there some fonts are missed.
What I've tried is to change permissions for fonts and refresh font ...
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troubleshooting wrong postscript font name in photoshop
Can anyone give me some more tips on how to fix/troubleshoot postscript font names? We have several computers that run scripts in photoshop and on most, photoshop has a postscript font name of Trocchi....
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🌿 in TextArea of OBS
Icons are possible to use in OBS-Text-Areas if you use the Font DeJa Vu Sans but not all (Example: ☳⚒⚄).
I searching for 🌿 without success.
how could i find out if this special (or a other) symbol is ...
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Microsoft Word for Mac 2011: Change the bold font for Avenir Book
Basically, know nothing about fonts, so any help is appreciated, but I've been using Avenir Book, which has a nice Bold font (looked like Avenir Black or Avenir Heavy), but now when I bold, it just ...
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adding special characters to file names on a mac
I've just been sent a pdf file on my mac and the file name has a filled in circle instead of an 'o'. Can anybody tell me how they have done this. I've tried copying glyphs from other applications but ...
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Word VBA: Hyperlink .Range.Font.TextColor.RGB and compatibility mode
Could someone please let me know why the first line of code below throws error 445 (Object doesn't support this action) when run on a Word document saved in compatibility mode? The second line works ...
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Is there a way to have responsive content in Word? - to have content in a Window reformat/flow to window size change?
If I resize the window size of Word, is there a way to have the content be responsive? That is, the content is automatically full-width (not overflow), and the font size is automatically large enough ...
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How to increase font size for messages in Telegram desktop client on Windows?
In Telegram Windows desktop client, how to increase font size for messages?
All the tutorials I found online are for mobile apps which aren't applicable to the Windows desktop client:
https://www....
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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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Can't install fonts on Asus Chromebook - no "Fonts" option on Edit menu
I'm trying to install some custom fonts (.otf files) on my wife's Asus Chromebook. Every tutorial I've found says one of two things: either
"In Google Docs, go to the Edit menu then choose ...
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Fonts in Geany are bold after installing LibreOffice
I've installed LibreOffice 7.1.1.2 64-bit on Windows 10 20H2 Pro and now the default Monospace font in Geany 1.37.1 is always bold (some other fonts are also affected).
Changing the Monospace in Geany ...
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Windows 10 no text on desktop at startup
On this particular Windows 10 machine, each time it boots up, the Text is missing on context menu, desktop shortcuts and even in control panel (start menu works fine). Only thing that resolves the ...
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What are fonts that starts with "@"?
I'm listening the fonts installed on the computer thought a script but I found those fonts whose name starts with a @, such as @Yu Gothic UI. What's the different from such font from one without the &...
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For one specific font, why the same font size looks different in different apps?
I see the difference quite often between apps. For example see the attached screenshot. Both PuTTY and Terminus are using the font Fixedsys Neo+. I'm using size 11 in PuTTY but for Terminus I have to ...
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Clock separator renders incorrectly under GNOME 3.38 on Arch Linux with Ubuntu font
I recently switched to Arch Linux from Ubuntu, and so to ease the switch, I've installed the GTK themes used by Ubuntu and switched to the Ubuntu font family across the system. However, there is a ...
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How to make text in a scanned pdf appear rounder/smoother/nicer?
I have a scanned pdf and the text in this pdf looks a bit too slim and unsmooth and thus makes it harder to read. Is there a way to optimize the text in the pdf so that it can look rounder/smoother/...
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LibreOffice font styles (bold, semibold, condensed, etc)
I have switched to Linux but it don't support MS Office, so I found the alternative - LibreOffice.
I need to open foreign presentations or documents that have fonts like "Bahnschrift ...
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Can I have different DPI-settings for fonts on different monitors?
I replaced one of my monitors by one with much higher resolution. Its physical dimensions are bigger too, but not as much bigger as the resolution -- so each pixel became quite a bit smaller.
To ...
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terminal fonts on debian 10 (konsole and gnome terminal)
I am on debian 10 (current stable) with kde (plasmashell --version → 5.14.5) . My main terminal emulator is konsole (from KDE). I want support for emojis and other special charecters on the terminal ...
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Odd Zenity-behaviour
I have a Bash-script containing Zenity dialog boxes that works fine on Ubuntu 20.04.
However when I start it in openSUSE Leap 42, it looks like this:
It seems as if some package is missing. Any ideas?...
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putty + powerlevel10k - font issue
I'm running ubuntu with zsh and powerlevel10k and that works just fine on the graphical terminal. I don't really use the TTY terminals, and if I do I can manage to make sense of the broken fonts, so ...
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Can I highlight only 1 number of a 2 or 3 number entry in Excel?
If I type the number 85 in one cell and the number 104 in another is there a way that I can automatically change the font colour of the 5 and 4 only? I know that I can extract the number by using =...
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How to use Font Awesome in Microsoft Office Word or PowerPoint on MacOS
I can use Font Awesome in Omnigraffle perfectly - paste the name of the icon and the image magically appears. The same process doesn't work with PowerPoint or Word. help!
The cheatsheet approach works ...
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Check which font Windows uses for a character
I'd like to use the trapezoid character “⏢” (U+23E2) in a MS Word document. I'd like to use the same font that Chrome and Windows 10 use to display it but every possible candidate font I try seems not ...
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Windows Font Appears Lighter
Since today (perhaps a late reaction to a previous Windows update?), the fonts in Microsoft Outlook and in the Start Menu (see example below) and Windows Apps appear lighter (less font-width) than ...
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How can I fix Error: "No usable fontconfig configuration file found, using fallback." in a WIN10 when I try hardsub a SRT in a MP4?
I trying to burn a subtitle on video but no way to get this.
Already create a bin fonts\fonts.conf in everywhere but seems not working right.
But the same code works on another computer.
Someone can ...
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Weird font issue on some programs on Windows 10
Some programs are displaying the wrong fonts. I think it's an issue with the Windows Fontmapper registry but can't pinpoint what caused it.
Here's an image of what it looks like,
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How to change urdu/arabic fonts on chrome?
In my previous laptop, I had installed and configured the 'Noto Naksh Arabic UI' font in custom font settings in both Windows 10 and ubuntu, and chrome was able to render the Urdu text in that custom ...
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What exactly is renderable text in a PDF document?
When trying to OCR a pdf file, I got an error message that "Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because This page contains renderable text".
link to adobe site
I search ...
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All my fonts show up in monospace in Chrome on Ubuntu
All of a sudden, with no intervention from me, Chrome keeps displaying monospace fonts on many different websites. When I go to set the fonts in Chrome settings, the rendered text does not reflect the ...
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How to install fonts for all users using WSL?
Using WSL Bash, I followed both sets of the steps from this question's answer (only the first set of steps worked) but I get strange behaviour for the font.
The font does show up in my text editors ...
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Emoji across excel version [closed]
I am making an data entry form. For each row I made a data validation cell at the end for user to finalize the row. There are 4 possible action/values:
blank: nothing
✔: the row is finalized
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How to deal with missing fonts when saving PowerPoint 365 presentation
I am editing a presentation, in PowerPoint 365 app, based on some old one, probably created by some Apple user. Each and every time when I am saving changes, I see this annoying dialog:
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Font size on Excel charts different on different PC
I have two PCs which both can access an Excel spreadsheet (on OneDrive). Both PCs have font scaling set to 100%.
But when I format a chart on one PC with reasonable size fonts, on the other PC text ...
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Specific font showing Thai characters in Word fonts dropdown list
In Microsoft Word, some fonts show a few characters of non-latin text next to the font name, in the dropdown list (see image below). What is that? Why is it here at all?
สวัสดี apparently means "...
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Bold font not appearing when exporting Word file to PDF
I am using CMU Serif font in Word, but when saving as a PDF, the bold text shows up as regular.
I have checked and I have properly installed CMU Serif Bold so unsure what to do.
Any ideas?
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Unicode compatible devnagari font
The pages on the following URL used to render correctly last time I checked.
http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/marathi_Corpus/aesthetics/literatureBio_and_autobio/ahe_manohar_tari/BA00B005-1112_utf.txt
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What is the name of this Font?
What is the exact name (and size and other attributes) of this very font Superuser is letting me use to type this very question? And is it open source? And if yes, where can I download it from?
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Blurry fonts in Intellij on macOS external screen
I work on MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017) with macOS Catalina (10.15.7). I work in GoLand (that is IntelliJ option).
After an update came (and I applied it unfortunately) fonts in IDE became stretched ...
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Transfer only custom installed fonts from Windows 7 to Windows 10
I am doing a clean reinstall of my system, and I wanted to transfer my custom fonts to the new system.
While I could just backup the entire "fonts" folder of the OS, as I understand that ...
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Finding font size used in pdf [duplicate]
I want to find the font types and sizes used in a pdf document. I managed to find the font types with strings foo.pdf | grep FontName as described in the link below. Is there a similar trick that will ...
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Weird rectangle font in Volume Mixer
Problem mentioned in the title: Weird rectangle font in Volume Mixer
How can solve this problem?
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Is there a way to make Chinese characters on Windows 10 larger, more readable or choose a different font?
The characters are too small, weird-looking and just hard to read.
Is there a way to make the default font more readable, i.e. change it, turn it into a true-type or something?
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How does a Windows Notepad display multiple fonts?
What I have known is, Notepad can display texts with a particular font only. But recently I pasted some texts from MS Word which were in Segoe UI font into the notepad which contains other texts too. ...
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Replacing Roboto font on Chrome
Let me start with a rant.
I have never especially liked the new Roboto 2014 font, and I vastly prefer the original Roboto 2011, which places me in a minority, since almost everyone prefers the new ...
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Font substitution in Excel
I have an Excel file with cells formatted with Trade Gothic LT Std font, and my computer has Trade Gothic LT Pro installed, which I believe is basically the same. It seems Excel is substituting the ...
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Hebrew font size on Chrome search bar looks weird, some letters are smaller than others
Something strange is going on with my friend's Chrome search bar, and only with Hebrew letters (as opposed to English letters) - some of the letters look smaller than others:
For comparison, this is ...
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