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Fonts not working right on a tablet.

Posted by steelsmiter
steelsmiter
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Sat 22 Mar 2014
at 18:20
  • msg #1

Fonts not working right on a tablet

I've got a Samsung Tablet 2, and I am willing to bet that your screens are displaying the fonts correctly, however on mine, Cursive and Serif are displaying the same, and Cursive isn't the correct one. I think it's one of the comic fonts, but I don't know which one I need to download to get it working right. Any help?
This is Cursive
This is Serif
This is Monotype
steelsmiter
member, 809 posts
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Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 23:28
  • msg #2

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

After a bit of experimentation, I have found out this may be a character encoding issue. Does anyone know which one I should be using to get the fonts to display correctly?
kouk
member, 351 posts
Wed 26 Mar 2014
at 00:03
  • msg #3

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

Just totally brainstorming, but conceivably you could try to reinstall whatever browser you use for that tablet.

Or there could be some system setting relating to fonts.

Might be a better question for the manufacturer forums.
steelsmiter
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Wed 26 Mar 2014
at 00:14
  • msg #4

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

kouk:
Just totally brainstorming, but conceivably you could try to reinstall whatever browser you use for that tablet.

Nah, the obvious answer hasn't worked. Furthermore I've downloaded 5 other browsers to check if they would change things. They didn't.

quote:
Might be a better question for the manufacturer forums.

Maybe, but if people who know about the programming behind building a site like this and encoding it to allow different fonts, they might have some insight on how it interacts with tablets... er maybe.
jase
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 03:23

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

For some reason Android doesn't have a font it uses when told to display a "cursive" font.  I've added "URW Chancery L" to the list of fonts to try (plus chalkboard for iOS).
jase
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 03:45

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

And then I added Pursia and Brush Script MT, but none are having an effect in my tests.  Apparently Android/Linux doesn't have a cursive font available.
steelsmiter
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 04:38
  • msg #7

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

Well, the really funny part about the whole thing is that I got Comic Sans MS, because that's the font I remember being closest, buuut that didn't work. I remembered a browser (opera maybe?) That would display Comic Sans MS as the cursive font, but only if it was my default font, and in that case, every font was Comic Sans MS. Even the ones that were supposed to display as something else.
kouk
member, 356 posts
Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 12:40
  • msg #8

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

The Interwebs is telling me that Android has a very limited font selection. Apparently this list?
http://www.ascenderfonts.com/store/search.aspx?q=Droid

There are some apps that supposedly expand it, not sure at what level they work on.

EDIT: Formatting
This message was last edited by the user at 12:47, Sat 29 Mar 2014.
steelsmiter
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 14:37
  • msg #9

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

There's a few that aren't on that list. Even one that reminds me of the chocobo missions from the final fantasy series. I might try setting my default font to that one and check if it helps.
Glenn Loos-Austin
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 14:52
  • msg #10

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

It shows up as comic sans on my Mac, both in Firefox and Safari. :(
(Looks good on my iPad, though.)
This message was last edited by the user at 14:53, Sat 29 Mar 2014.
steelsmiter
member, 818 posts
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Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 15:16
  • msg #11

Re: Fonts not working right on a tablet

Glenn Loos-Austin:
It shows <snip> on my Mac, <snip> iPad <snip>

Neat, but that doesn't help android users.
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