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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.

@font-face is a rule used in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to specify fonts used for text. It allows font files on a server to be used, rather than just those on the user's device.

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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 applications, on Linux and Windows too. Here's an…
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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 init.elc file that's not representative updated…
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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 you can see are missing including clefs, ideally I…
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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 characters. Here's ff fi fl ffi ffl typed into the…
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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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Windows 8 Font Stack

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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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 noticed that the terminal font is "weaker" on…
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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 fonts, perhaps the best would be based on the url in…
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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 to increase the size of the font/typeface used in…
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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 author of the page was using CSS3's font-face to…
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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 is the line I added, @font-face { font-family:…
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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 looks "boxier" than what I believe was the original…
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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 'missing' font or choose another one. I…
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