Liberation Fonts & Font-Mapping 101
Jorge Fábregas
jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Thu May 8 22:53:29 UTC 2008
On Thursday 08 May 2008 08:33:28 am Tim wrote:
> I don't know what's up with Firefox, but it seems to play by its own
> rules regarding using a font when it's told to use a substitute for
> what's not available.
Thanks Tim for both files. That was precisely what I needed to get me
started. I'm much clearer now :)
I was right now tweaking my Firefox font settings and I was doing this
experiment with the Google search results page. This page asks for:
"arial, sans-serif"
Exactly like that. And then...I had my Firefox setting (the way it comes out
by default). For sans-serif I had "sans-serif"... and the actual font I got
was:
"Liberation Sans"
That's what I get when I do: fc-match arial. And I know it's this font because
I recognize it visually. But HERE IS THE THING...I changed my Sans-serif
setting in Firefox to some weird font like "Jomolhari". I closed and opened
Firefox again and I'm surprised that I actually get "Jomolhari"! How come?
Why isn't Firefox presenting the substitute I have for arial (since it is
requested as the first option)? It seems that , no matter what, if there's
an explicit request for a familiy (sans-serif in this case) it will then use
the font you specified in the settings.
Thanks!
Jorge
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