Test Post: fonts

Question? What happens when I declare a font that isn’t commonplace? Maybe a font that’s unique to my own computer? Even a font I designed myself, but is True Type?

I’m curious, and since this is the place for test posts…

The following line reads, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” (True indeed!) I’m declaring it in “PENCILB” a bold variant of “Pencilpoint.” It looks like a kind of comic-book-lettering.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

And…back to normal.

On my screen, I see the sort of scritchy, scratchy pencil-sketch lettering; what do other people see?

(Yay, science!)

ETA: inspired by the IMHO thread about comic sans.

Looks like Times New Roman.

That’s kinda what I guessed would happen. For it to work, some system would have to pass the font information from my 'puter via the internet to the SDMP somehow, for it to be displayed to anyone else.

I can see the comic sans in the comic sans thread…because I’ve got comic sans. If I didn’t…it would look like TNR…

An experiment performed in proper sciencey fashion! 'Cause, Science!

You get the default font in that person’s browser. Times New Roman is a common default, but I always change mine to a sans serif font. Here, I just see the same font I see for all posts.

Out in the wild, you would actually declare multiple fonts, finally ending up with declaring the type of font (sans, serif, monospaced) as the final fallback. But this board converts [font=] to the old HTML <font> tag which doesn’t support fallback fonts.

I actually don’t have any of the fonts in the dropdown installed on this Linux box other than Georgia. I like the free fonts, and don’t see the need. Georgia is the exception–it looks a lot better than my Times New Roman clone.

I also used a trick to convert Courier New to another font I do have that I think is easier to read (Deja Vu Sans Mono). Unfortunately, that trick stopped working on Firefox for some reason, and I’ve not bothered using a different method tha tmight work.

As usual, this place is a font of knowledge.

If not the origo at times.