I’ve encountered an unexpected issue with fonts in making my sites responsive. I’ve started using Calibri for the first time, which comes through fine on a full size screen in Safari, Chrome. Firefox and Opera but on testing on my iPhone and iPad it comes up as what looks like Times.
Anyone know why this might be and what can be done? I can always revert to Helvetica which did not do this, but I rather liked Calibri when I came across it.
Calibri will be present on any desktop that has installed the Microsoft Office suite, but is by no means a “universal” font. If you embed a Web font version of it (not sure if that exists) using Caxton or another Action to create and manage the links to the various font files, then you can use it on any device, because the font geometry will be supplied.
Walter
On Jan 19, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Colin Lamont email@hidden wrote:
I’ve encountered an unexpected issue with fonts in making my sites responsive. I’ve started using Calibri for the first time, which comes through fine on a full size screen in Safari, Chrome. Firefox and Opera but on testing on my iPhone and iPad it comes up as what looks like Times.
Anyone know why this might be and what can be done? I can always revert to Helvetica which did not do this, but I rather liked Calibri when I came across it.
Many thanks to you both. I don’t think I’ll go down what might for an amateur like me be a difficult road to make Calibri work when Helvetica doesn’t seem the throw up the same problem. It takes me long enough to do the simple things!
Thank you David. That link made for some interesting reading. You are opening up a whole new learning opportunity!
Just one further question. If I sort out a suitable font stack, can I apply it retrospectively to an existing site or do I need to rebuild from ground up?
If I sort out a suitable font stack, can I apply it retrospectively to an existing site
Yes. You can edit your Font Sets to include the fallbacks without rebuilding the site. It will affect every page which will need a fresh upload so if you have a big site it might take a while.
That’s great! I’m revising the whole site anyway in the process of making it responsive and so it won’t be much of a job to fix the font sets at the same time.