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? asked in Computers & InternetProgramming & Design · 8 years ago

How to automatically change webpage font if selected font is unavailable?

I have a webpage and it uses the font DaunPenh with a mixture of size and appearance settings to match what is used on the businesses business cards and posters. Although this font appears correctly on Windows (7 & 8) it does not appear correctly on an Ubuntu running computer I have access to. It changes the font to something else which it can then display the text in but all of the settings used for the other font are still applied, thus leaving a mess of writing which does not look right on the page (picture below shows). All of the font settings etc are controlled by a CSS file which is used on every page of the website.

So the question is: Is there a way for the website to change the font settings if DaunPenh is unavailable automatically so a selected font with selected size and other settings is chosen?

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Edit: Forgot the image link: http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss173/boxburn/c...

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  • Greywolf
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Browsers are already built to handle this issue. You can specify in your CSS a list of which fonts to try to use, and what order to try them in.

  • ?
    8 years ago

    Suggestion: Change it so it looks right in Ubuntu, then make a script to identify the program you used to view that site that redirects it to that CSS file with that code? If it is a browser compatibility issue anyway.

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