# Test Post: fonts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 8, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896 "2016-06-08T23:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/1 "2016-06-08T23:44:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/2 "2016-06-08T23:56:31Z")
Looks like Times New Roman. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/3 "2016-06-09T01:14:20Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/4 "2016-06-09T03:12:15Z")
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 \ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/5 "2016-06-09T15:47:52Z")
As usual, this place is a font of [knowledge](http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/08/poll-results/). ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-fonts/756896/6 "2016-06-10T21:02:53Z")
If not the _origo_ at times.