Questions tagged [fonts]
Quantity of sorts composing of a complete character set of a single style of a particular typeface.
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Cyrillic alphabet don't work in a word
I'm installing a font with Cyrillic alphabet support on windows 8.1 , and try it in ms word 2016 , Cyrillic alphabet not work and all time change on Calibri, on windows 10 with ms word 2019 this font ...
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how to know font of a pdf
I want to know what font is used in a pdf.
I want to know what font has been used to make this document.
I use Foxit reader.
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Is it possible to specify specific different fonts for different languages in GVIM 8.2?
My GVim 8.2
I am using Traditional Chinese Windows 10
I am trying to set up my GVim 8.2 to use a choice of font for Chinese language and then a
different font for English, because of my preference.
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How can I change the Background color and the Font size in Apache J Meter
How can I change the background color to White from the existing Black color and also increase the font size of the Apache J Meter Software?
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Changing fonts for GTK3 apps under KDE
I am running KUbuntu 20.04 and changed my default fonts there. The KDE system settings GUI has a button to configure GTK appearance, but this only allows changing the whole theme to another predefined ...
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All fonts on Chrome are very slightly duller (lighter & grayer) than on Firefox
This is such a subtle issue but it's driving me nuts!
Here's one example:
It's very subtle, but if you look closely you'll notice chrome's fonts are slightly duller / greyer and also a little bit ...
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Windows 10, x64 Cannot change desktop icon text back from black to white
A while back I used the method to change the desktop icon font from white to black (using the orange, etc.) This worked. But now the black does not look good with my wallpaper. I want the font to ...
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Page's Font become Bold or Italic in chrome
I'm using Manjaro-KDE and set system font "Noto Sans". So when I open some site with Google Chrome, The font becomes really bad (Bold/Italic), even if I've tried to install many fonts and set Goggle ...
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Change the level of boldness of font in ms-word
How do I modify the level of boldness for text in MS-OFFICE 2016? I am unable to change it from what's default when we click bold. We have three default options of font including bold, italic and ...
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Disable font smoothing in Wine
I have the opposite problem of this: Font smoothing in Wine
Fonts that are rendered the Windows way look blurry and have their colours offset, like on Windows, so I want to disable font smoothing ...
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Undo registry edit change
I was interested in changing the default font on my Windows 10 devices, and so I followed some instructions I found here. Upon restarting my computer, I realized that the font I chose would not work ...
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How to copy text with font information as well?
I wonder, how to copying text with font information? Copying any text from the website below and paste to any document have the exact font style! What is the mechanism behind it?
https://coolfont....
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Wrong font on certain sites in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge but not in Tor
As you see on picture font is bad to read, and I don't know when what I did to make it.
When in Chrome through Chrome dev tools F12 in Element - Style I find font-family and change the first font ...
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Excel error: “No more new fonts may be applied”
I suppose I should start by asking whether anyone knows if Excel / Microsoft has a limit to how many different fonts can be used in a single document.
I keep a spreadsheet of all the fonts installed ...
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Is it possible to change the font in cmd for one app and retain the default font for other programs?
I want to change the default font for a console text editor I am using on Windows. Looking on the internet, it seems I need to change cmd's font by right-clicking the title bar. However, that changes ...
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Is there a general solution to make the UHD 3840 x 2160 notebook show bigger icons and fonts?
I got a UHD notebook before (Lenovo Yoga), and it had UHD 3840 x 2160 resolution. One problem is the text and icons on the app's UI can be really small. Is there a way to solve it so everything ...
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Fonts are showing up in Windows/Font folder but not in Font Settings
I downloaded Roboto Mono from Google Fonts and installed them on Windows 10. They were showing in Font Settings and I was using them in VScode. After laptop reboot VScode is not picking them up ...
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Text in Kali Linux showing up as grainy or pieces missing
I think it may be a problem with the font but I am not sure. I have changed the font and rebooted but nothing happens. I have also tried this command: "sudo apt-get install --reinstall fonts-cantarell"...
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Cannot see ttf font (converted from otf) in DOS properties/fonts list
using Win10;
I downloaded a TTF font (this one), installed it and selected it to use as DOS font (properties - fonts). This worked, but the non-breaking space displays a strange character:
So I ...
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MS Word monospace font is not monospace for spaces
I want to create a report including c++ source codes with MS Word (macOS version).
Though I use monospaced fonts, white spaces are not monospaced.
White spaces have different width with letters.
How ...
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Only browser works fine plus some apps Windows 10 [closed]
CMD shell has no text
Windows menu are squished and even taking a screenshot is impossible because explorer shows zero names for folders and files.
Steam menu has the login box but no text on the ...
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Persian font not applies to my excel report generated by birt report engin
I have a report is designed by Birt report generator; each cell of my generated excel report has a Persian font ("B Nazanin", as I defined in my report template) which is shown in the font part in ...
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Windows 10 shows french accents as Simplified Chinese characters
I'm using Windows 10 with French set as the default language.
When I receive an email with French accents, often these letters will be misread as Simplified Chinese characters.
This is in the default ...
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Weird Characters on the MSPFA Site
I sometimes see weird characters in non-English fancomics on the MSPFA website. This happens on every browser I've tried.
Here are some links that showcase this problem.
https://mspfa.com/?s=13509&...
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Microsoft Word (Office 365, Windows Stand-alone edition) automatically changes font when I switch keyboard layouts. How do I disable this?
I am a PhD student working on my dissertation in an historically-oriented discipline, which requires me to frequently type in a variety of languages, including Latin and Greek. I am frustrated that ...
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How can I use a letter from a font that is embedded (subset embedding but the letter is present in the document) in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat?
How can I use a letter from a font that is embedded (subset embedding but the letter is present in the document) in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat when editing the text?
Example PDF: https://www.aclweb....
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Outlook compose font looks wrong but fine in outbox/sent, Word, PowerPoint, printing
I use comic sans 12. Always looked fine while composing in outlook. But last week it started looking thinner and more like 11 point. It says 12. Looks fine when in the outbox and sent folder. If I ...
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Duplicate Fonts in Selectors but Not in Font Book?
I have a font in Font Book which I've checked for duplicates but didn't find any. All the while I am seeing duplicates for it in other places. What might I be missing here?
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Why does my remote desktop session introduce custom scaling and blurry text
I have noticed this problem for a few years now. It happens primarily when I use Remote Desktop Connection from Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro connecting to my Windows 10 Desktop but I have also had it ...
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How can I add fonts to Libre Office Writer?
New laptop, latest versions of software downloaded. Among the software I use a lot is Libre Office Writer. One of my documents has lost two of its fonts, namely Papyrus and Bookman Old Style.
They ...
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How to optimize any webpage in Chrome to make it more reader friendly?
I am a student and it's been probably more than a month since we've been locked in our homes. I left most of my books at the hostel, but classes are being taken online. So, simply not studying has ...
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Windows 10 font - too shiny/bright
I was modifying display settings/changing monitors. As a result, the font on my Lenovo Y44 looks "shinish" as seen in the attached photos. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.
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Is there any way to replace Segoe UI emoji that comes with windows with a font that supports flag emojis in chrome?
Emoji flags are supported on all major platforms except Windows, which displays two-letter country codes instead of emoji flag images.
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Fonts are too sharp on one PC. Anything I can do with this?
tl;dr: One of my PCs shows a very sharp fonts with little or no blur even though Smooth edges of images and text is checked. I can resolve this situation somehow?
I have got two computers:
Windows ...
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Bulk font-replace double-wide Chinese-encoded fonts?
Goal:
I'm trying to script or use a built-in operation to bulk replace fonts within a PowerPoint file (a set of files, really).
Steps/code:
I've found the com object code to create a powerpoint ...
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Zooming in chrome without changing font or layout
We all know how zooming in chrome works, the fonts and the layout also changes.
i have been looking for a solution to this.
and found this extension Custom Page Zoom
this extension works as expected,...
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Steam tray menu missing font (squares)
I've installed steam on my linux machine. Everything seems to work ok except Steam tray menu.
My current configuration is:
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia x86_64
Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic
Desktop ...
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Visual Studio wont show me an installed font
I want to take a specific font for my Windows Forms, but Visual Studio does not give me the option to select it. Other fonts, that are not installed default on Windows, are shown.
Ive tried re-...
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Use custom font when burning subtitles with ffmpeg
I'm using ffmpeg (on AWS lambda) to burn subtitles. Using force_style I can specify the FontName but I can only use system fonts.
Is it possible to use a font from a font file? I've seen it's ...
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Fonts almost unreadable on Chrome & Firefox (windows 10)?
Some websites display text in a weird way (borderline unreadable).
For example:
Facebook or Ebay don't display text correctly
Google, Gmail, other websites are ok.
Screenshot illustrating my issue:...
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How to improve Firefox 75 fonts on Fedora Linux?
I'm trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox on Fedora Linux. Text looks better in Chrome, more readable. Here's an example with
https://news.ycombinator.com/ at 110% font zoom:
Firefox, on the left, ...
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Unable to embed fonts in PowerPoint
I'm trying to embed fonts on a PowerPoint template I'm working on, but every time I try to save it, I get an error saying that the font cannot be embedded because it's not truetype. I've looked ...
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Font switches when filling a form and typing accented characters in Adobe Reader DC
I am filling in a form in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free version). The font is a sans serif font, probably Segoe UI, however, if I type certain accented characters (e.g. ň or ő) it switches to a serif ...
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.glyph file to png, how to convert?
I have a set of .glyph files that I would like to save as an image, but I am not even what to do with this file.
StartChar: A
Encoding: 65 65 33
Width: 1024
Flags: W
LayerCount: 2
Fore
SplineSet
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how can i change my windows 8.1 font, without changing the icons? if possible, is there also a way to find all of the icons and replace them? [closed]
i am writing my first question here (ever).
but i would like to focus on changing my font on windows 8.1.
i already attempted this with this tool called winaero tweaker
the tool changed the fonts, but ...
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Windows 7 Showing Rectangle Boxes Instead of Characters! [gVim]
I have been trying to solve this mystery for such a long time. Within Gvim I see all the airline symbols are not showing. Some are like rectangle boxes. It seems MS Word 2016 can show slightly more ...
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Anybody know of a way to change the message-list and folder-list fonts in Thunderbird 68?
I'm in the process of migrating my work Mac from Mojave on its internal HDD to Catalina on a USB3.1 SSD.
I've just learned that "Theme Font & Size Changer" don't bloody work on T-Bird 68 (sounds ...
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Powerpoint Text Will Only Decrease, Not Increase
I am using Powerpoint 365. I have a slide that started as a "Title + Content" layout, and typed in my content, then decided I wanted a "Two Content" layout and converted it. I started typing in the ...
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Data brought up keeping different font options
I have made two excel files. The first is a database with all the information I need to know for a product (eg. 1st collumn - code of product, 2nd - name of product, 3rd ingredients of the product, ...
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Why do fonts looked badly rendered in Adobe Acrobat?
Fonts looked badly rendered in Adobe Acrobat, they looked aliased, jagged or whatever. However, they look fine in Nitro Pro (please see the comparison) and any web browser.
Acrobat 1
Nitro 1
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