Forum font?

[Young Ned]

What is the font that this forum uses for the "Sryth" skin? It's not my current browser font -- it's cleaner-looking than any font I've tried in my browser so far, and I wantss it, yesss, I wantss it, my Precious... ;)

[Badstench]

I copied and pasted your query onto a Word sheet, and the font changed to 'Verdana'... is that what you mean?

[Oldschool]

Also when you (or when I do at least) start typing a forum post/reply the font "switches" over to Verdana.

[scout1idf]

What is the font that this forum uses for the "Sryth" skin? It's not my current browser font -- it's cleaner-looking than any font I've tried in my browser so far, and I wantss it, yesss, I wantss it, my Precious... ;)
From the best that I can tell, you have a few to pick from that could be what you want....

body
{
background: #333333 url(images_sryth/background_bricksd3.gif) repeat top left;
color: #F4E8C8;
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
padding: 0px;
}
After looking at the list, I noticed that I don't have most of the fonts that are listed.
I have Lucida Console, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode/ but not lucida or lucida grande.
Also I don't have geneva, helvetica or sans-serif.

I wonder where you can get these fonts, without actually buying them.

[Joddelle]

One of the 'cascading' aspects of cascading style sheets (css) is that font-faces from a font list like that are used in first-to-last order, so what you see on your screen is the first font available on your machine in such a list of font-faces.

So - whatever font you are seeing, it is already on your machine.

EDIT: Also, san-serif is not a specific font face, but a generic fall back instruction to use any sans-serif font on your machine, if such is available.

[Young Ned]

I copied and pasted your query onto a Word sheet, and the font changed to 'Verdana'... is that what you mean?

That was the first thing I tried, actually, but this work laptop I use came with OpenOffice on it instead of Micro$oft Office, and OO's word processor doesn't do that. The pasted text comes up in the word processor's default font.

Also when you (or when I do at least) start typing a forum post/reply the font "switches" over to Verdana.

I don't know what you mean. When I click "Reply" or "Reply with Quote", the editing screen I get doesn't show the current font anywhere. If I use the Fonts drop-down, none of the fonts are highlighted, and when I pick one it just inserts the appropriate [ font="blah" ][ /font ] tags.

From the best that I can tell, you have a few to pick from that could be what you want....

body
{
background: #333333 url(images_sryth/background_bricksd3.gif) repeat top left;
color: #F4E8C8;
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
padding: 0px;
}


Aha. The order in which they're listed is the order in which the browser tries them. So if you don't have Verdana, it tries Geneva; if you don't have Geneva, it tries Lucida; and so on, until it exhausts all the possibities and uses whatever font is set up in your browser as the default "sans-serif" type, which is what the last entry refers to. Since I do have Verdana on this machine, that must be what it's using. Thanks!

Don't know why I didn't think of using "view source" to figure it out. I must have been tired.


After looking at the list, I noticed that I don't have most of the fonts that are listed.
I have Lucida Console, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode/ but not lucida or lucida grande.
Also I don't have geneva, helvetica or sans-serif.

I wonder where you can get these fonts, without actually buying them.

I think the Lucidas come with Windows these days; I have Lucida and Lucida Grande (plus the three you had) on this new laptop. Although I did copy over my fonts from my old laptop, so it's possible I downloaded those from somewhere on the Interwebs.

Arial is basically Micro$oft's version of Helvetica, though most fontographers and type geeks consider Helvetica a better font. I think Geneva is the Mac version of Arial/Helvetica. (Geneva is in Switzerland, and Helvetica is the Latin name for Switzerland, you see...)

Quite a lot of fonts are available as free downloads, actually, so you shouldn't have much trouble finding them. Some free fonts are high quality, but many have crappy quality, so be warned.

Ah, I see Joddelle gazumped me on a couple of things. Oh, well. :)

So - whatever font you are seeing, it is already on your machine.

Oh, I knew that. I just wanted other web sites to display in that font, and it wasn't any of the fonts I'd tried setting my browser to use so far. I think I gave up before I got to the Vs. :cool:

Thanks to everyone for the informative responses!

[Oldschool]

Well most of the above is lost on me but to, hopefully, answer Young Ned's question.



I don't know what you mean. When I click "Reply" or "Reply with Quote", the editing screen I get doesn't show the current font anywhere. If I use the Fonts drop-down, none of the fonts are highlighted, and when I pick one it just inserts the appropriate [ font="blah" ][ /font ] tags.

Which was in response to an earlier post by me.

Also when you (or when I do at least) start typing a forum post/reply the font "switches" over to Verdana.

If you go to "User CP" then "Edit Options" there is a "Miscellaneous Options" which allows you to select one of three message editor interfaces. I'm guessing that's where the difference lies, so to speak.

EDIT: Alternatively you can access these options from selecting "Quick Links".

[Young Ned]

Aha, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. :)