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Font problems when google fonts not installed on the mac
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Heya, I just created a 2nd account on my mac to install Chrome and Opera ... well, to just test my website using other browsers. And I don't trust google, hence the 2nd user account. Anyway, on the 2nd account I don't have the fonts from fonts.google.com installed that I use on my website. I do have them installed on my normal account, where I use EasyWeb. When opening the website in different browsers, I notice a difference and I'm not sure if that has something to do with EasyWeb, but I thought I'll post it anyway. On a sidenote: this happens in Safari, Chrome, Opera but NOT in Firefox ... so it's a browser issue? After all at least Chrome renders the fonts as they look like in EasyWeb, but that's not the issue here. I noticed this issue the first time when I watched the site on my wife's MacBook, which doesn't have the google fonts installed, that I use on my iMac with EasyWeb. So here's the website how it looks on my normal account, using Safari - looks like it should: On my wife's MacBook or the 2nd account on my iMac (no fonts installed), it looks like this (and the text boxes are wide enough to contain the full text and more: So, what's the solution here? Create the website, test it in all available browser and modify it long enough so it looks good on all browsers?? Last edit 10 years ago ------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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What is the URL of the page and which particular font are you using?
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Hi Roddy, it's Life Savers Bold, 24px for the heading and Titillium Web Regular, 14px for the paragraphs. ------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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Can I see the published page so that I can look at the stylesheet?
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Sorry, forgot the link: www.singkehlchen.de
------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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Font rendering is not exactly the same in all browsers. Usually it's Firefox that is guilty of expanding text but it seems to be the reverse in this case. I've seen this a lot with iWeb built sites and the problem arises from having the text box too tight to the box. It's a good idea to give it a little breathing room - especially in a case like this where you are using a fairly large size. The reason the "!" is returning on its own is that there is a space between it and the previous word which is not normal but is used a lot for clarity. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Well, but why does it look different in Safari on my wife's MacBook? The only difference is that the google fonts used are not installed on the MacBook, but only on my iMac where I work with EasyWeb. It looks the same in all browsers on my iMac, where I have the google fonts installed. It just looks different on Mac where those fonts aren't installed. That drives me crazy :x So the only way to avoid this, font issues or not, is to see and check the site on various machines, various browsers until it looks the same even if the fonts are not installed? Jeez... ok. ------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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I don't have any past experience of this since I didn't install any special fonts on my Mac until I started testing EasyWeb. When you create websites using code there is no advantage to installing the fonts on your computer. All I can sat is that, in general, it's a good idea to leaving some breathing room for text. I learned the hard way that leaving a space between a word and an exclamation mark is not a good idea on responsive sites - for obvious reasons! ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Well, I did it for readbility, but I see the problem there. I'll keep the text boxes larger and wider. Hopefully that will do. And the use of EasyWeb (plus the ability to use google fonts) was the only reason I chose to install those fonts on my iMac. I'm in the office now, where IE8 shows not only the exclamation mark in the 3rd row, but two words as well ------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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I'm not sure how much this will help, if at all, but under the text options in the Inspector set the margin for the text to 0.
------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: pumpkin 10 years ago
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Thanks Paul, I'll keep that in mind too.
------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: Vocal Affairs // Singkehlchen |
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