In our current project we were given a sets of web designs, but those included Neo Sans Pro font, however, we can not use that one - is there a websafe alternative for that?
While I was looking for some alternatives - here's what I found on google fonts,
however be careful if you neeed diacritics – especially Caron and Ring ...see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caronhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(diacritic)):
for more info.
FONTS:
Armata - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Armata
Titillium Web - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Titillium+Web
(no carons, no rings) Ropa Sans - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ropa+Sans
Exo - http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Exo
Open Sans would be your best option
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I am developing a dialog for my application using Ruby Gtk and have a requirement of displaying the text on the dialog in the Open Sans font. I have used Pango markup below to achieve this and seems to work as expected on my system.
<span font_family=\"Open Sans\" foreground=\"black\" size=\"x-small\" weight=\"bold\">#{value}</span>
To make it work though, I also had to manually install the Open Sans font onto my system. Without doing so, I was seeing the following warning in the application log file.
Pango-WARNING **:couldn't load font "Open Sans Bold Not-Rotated 10", falling back to "Sans Bold Not-Rotated 10", expect ugly output.
I know it is possible to specify multiple fonts in case of HTML in descending order of preference as a fallback in case a certain font doesn't exist and such a logic would be acceptable in my case. But I can't seem to find an example on the internet. Is it even possible to specify multiple fonts with Pango markup? If so, how? If not, is there any other way around this warning other than installing the font?
AFAIK there is no way to specify multiple fonts. You can obtain a list of all available fonts (that's how it's done in C) and then iterate over that list, finding the one that fits best.
I'm trying to use emojione-apple.ttf from https://github.com/emojione/emojione/tree/master/extras/fonts on Heroku because the default font on Heroku (dejavu) doesn't have all the emoji.
I added the fonts on the ~/.fonts folder with this buildpack : https://github.com/GautierT/puppeteer-heroku-buildpack
When i render an HTML page to PDF with https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer it's seems that it's still dejavu fonts and not the emojione.
(Very low quality, weird "glasses" and "gear" emoji)
Thank you for your help. 🙂
I've used the android variant of emojione's font with degrees of success for browserless. I'm not sure what linux distro Heroku uses for their service, but you might have to consider an alternative provider if it's limited (Firebase functions and AWS Lambdas have similar constraints).
I created a buildpack to add native emoji support for a Heroku-18 stack (you can grab it here https://github.com/SimonBriche/heroku-buildpack-emoji-support) with the limitation of the emojis supported by the DejaVu font.
Long story short, the DejaVu font takes precedence over NotoColorEmoji for the emojis that it knows.
There is no clean workaround for that, besides replacing DejaVu by an other font that doesn't know any emojis (the best candidate would be Bitstream Vera) but it could lead to other (worst ?) side effects...
More details can be found in the readme of the repo.
HTH
I've tested it here, http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/utf8test.htm
No talking about the miscellaneous ones.
Is it Windows 7 fonts? Is it Chrome rendering? Is it some configuration I should tweak?
Any help is welcome.
EDIT: I've just checked that UTF-8 was selected in Chrome codification, and it was.
Strangly I can see more symbols in IE 11 (!)
EDIT 2: Comparision -> http://bit.ly/font-rendering-chrome-ie
(I guess I should have posted this on the superuser forum, but I can't move it myself.)
Most browsers use a fallback font if some Unicode characters aren't available in a font. It seems that the implementation of that fallback mechanism differs in IE and Chrome.
One possible solution is to use a different font-family for Unicode characters. For Windows systems, I typically use Lucida Sans Unicode with a CSS rule like this:
.unicode {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;
}
Is there a way to use an OpenType font on Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application? I want to use Lobster which is only available AFAIK in OpenType format. It renders in Blend but not when I deploy to the emulator.
I have included the .otf file in my project and set the Properties to 'Content' and 'Copy If Newer'.
This website found a solution for .ttf fonts, but the technique specified does not work for OpenType. Is OpenType not supported by Windows Phone? I find this hard to believe given that MS part invented the format!
Windows Phone requires your fonts to be TrueType (.ttf). OpenType (.otf) is not supported.
There may be some confusion on the term "OpenType". OpenType is a broad description of the format which actually includes 2 "flavors" for describing the font's outlines: TrueType and CFF (A form of Adobe PostScript).
A font with a .otf extension is most definitely an OpenType font, and usually means that it includes CFF outlines.
But a TrueType font is, in most cases, generally considered an OpenType font as well, since the OpenType format is actually a superset of both TrueType and CFF flavors.
Regarding Lobster in particular: as a test, I added that font to my Google Webfonts collection, and clicked "Download Collection". The resulting file was a .ttf, and as such, should be usable in Windows Phone as Den Delimarsky's answer points out. How are you getting a .otf version of this file? And is it truly a CFF file, or just a TrueType file with a .otf extension?
Also note that you may be able to obtain the TrueType/.TTF directly from the Google Font Directory though doing so through a browser currently seems to be a bit wonky.
you need to add it to the project, set build action to content and enter a uri that links to it in the FontFamily property with the hash tag:
Example of FontFamily:
FontFamily="fonts/Lobster.ttf#Lobster"
I am creating a English to Mangolean Dictionary app; So i need to display mangolean word corresponding to my english word; i read from a blog that wp7 only supports limited language set. So how can i over come my issue. Please help me to solve this issue.
There's a tutorial on embedding fonts in Silverlight here: http://paulyanez.com/interactive/index.php/2009/12/embedding-fonts-in-silverlight/ The implementation for Windows Phone is exactly the same. The tutorial uses Expression Blend (which is part of the developer tools download and also free for Windows Phone), which is the simplest, quickest, and easiest way to embed fonts for Silverlight.
Apart from the supported Fonts you can add your on fonts to you project. For example create a folder named Fonts in you project and add you *.TTF files(Font Files). By referring this font files you can resolve your issues.