Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

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Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby cooper88 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:17 am

Just as a note, the new forum layout uses a font called 'Lucida Grande'. That font was originally created for the Mac OS and comes bundled with the Safari browser for Windows. Normal windows installations do not have it.

If you don't have the font in your windows installation, the font will be substituted by your browser to another one. In my case, it was a really crappy very condensed font that was a nightmare to read.

So if you are having the same problem and want to see the forum the way it is supposed to look, , unzip and copy the 2 font files to your windows fonts folder.

Frankly, I am not too impressed with this font either but it is still better than the substitute :roll:
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby oliver » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:25 pm

You're right, Cooper.

I demand KirstenITC and Comic Sans MS !! :evil:

Or Verdana, at least ;)
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby Pryda » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:56 pm

Already downloaded it a while ago, as it is also the font that Facebook uses.
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby oliver » Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:45 pm

Erm, I wonder, this new theme that was mentioned to need the new font, is that the fixed-width theme, or the variable width theme ?
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby cooper88 » Fri Dec 06, 2013 8:20 am

Both use that font Oli.

font-family: "Lucida Grande",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby oliver » Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:54 am

*Sudden realization I could have simply opened G-D's source code to make sure
*Shame

Thanks Coop !

Now that I think of it, I may have to replace that call, or else use some javascript to load that font (that must be doable nowadays, I've seen sites load mobile fonts into my browser like that), I'm hostile to the idea the forum looks bad for people who don't deliberately install a certain font...
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Re: Missing Fonts For The New Forum Layout

Postby cooper88 » Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:02 pm

It doesn't look 'bad', just different.

For somebody new to the forum, it won't be an issue I guess.
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