PROTIP: Non-standard and fallback fonts

[Corile]

Cause apparently people don't know this.

When you use non-standard fonts on the forums, people who don't have them installed will see the text in Times New Roman or another unintended font.

For instance, if I write a heading in Abel (which is a font that most people don't have installed) it's going to look like this:

This is some text.

Code:

[font=Abel]This is some text.[/font]

However, if you want to ensure your text still looks good even for people who don't have the non-standard font installed you can use the CSS fallback:

If you have Abel installed, this text will be displayed in Abel. If you don't but have Tahoma, it will be in Tahoma. Otherwise, it will be in the default sans-serif font for your system.

Code:

[font=Abel, Tahoma, sans-serif]If you have Abel installed, this text will be displayed in Abel. If you don't but have Tahoma, it will be in Tahoma. Otherwise, it will be in the default sans-serif font for your system.[/font]

Also download my font pack http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=149746

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[Kauket]

tbh I never knew you could do that with fonts

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[Sombs]

To be fair, why would you want to use fonts that aren't necessarily installed on other PCs? There are enough available. The fallback is a nice thing, pretty cool that that works, but then again, I doubt there are many people that use custom made font packs. It's a nice detail for those who do.

What you could do is use faction-based fonts that use that fallback - to the normal eye, the fallback could drop the letter back to unreadible letters or symbols, while the faction that uses the font on their PCs could encrypt things that way.

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[Corile]

There are enough available

The only good standard fonts are Tahoma, Segoe and Open Sans, pmuch everything else is trash. (Also Consolas to a degree).

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[Sombs]

Yeah, and XBox is better than Playstation.

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[Corile]

>implying good design is subjective

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[Kaze]

There are enough available

The only good standard fonts are Tahoma, Segoe and Open Sans, pmuch everything else is trash. (Also Consolas to a degree).

I got to agree with OCD Protege here.

<3

This text was written with Tahoma.

[Corile]

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[Traxit]

these fonts are cool, would be fashionable if people used them and introduced fallbacks too.

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[Alestone]

To be fair, why would you want to use fonts that aren't necessarily installed on other PCs? There are enough available.

If you look at this:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread...pid1879393

you'll see that it has a signature as part of the post. That uses a non-standard font, but it is a lot better from an immersion perspective.