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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 5, 2024 6:08:20 GMT -8
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Greetings! Is there a possibility of a medium bold font weight for default forum text? I've tried a 600 weight which is bold, 550 weight takes it to normal. Thanks in advance
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Post by Craig on Jul 5, 2024 6:18:20 GMT -8
Hi ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) It can sometimes depend on the font as to what it accepts. 600 should be a medium bold, so to speak. Which font are you using?
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 5, 2024 6:25:28 GMT -8
Trebuchet I don't see a difference between the 600 weight and bold setting
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Post by Craig on Jul 5, 2024 6:53:26 GMT -8
Trebuchet I don't see a difference between the 600 weight and bold setting hellohellohelloThe above is hello, in "trebuchet ms" face with font weights 600, 500 and 400 from top to bottom. Do you see a difference at all
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 5, 2024 6:59:59 GMT -8
Trebuchet I don't see a difference between the 600 weight and bold setting hellohellohelloThe above is hello, in "trebuchet ms" face with font weights 600, 500 and 400 from top to bottom. Do you see a difference at all Yes. The 600 is bolder the 400 and 500 appear to be the same. Now compare it to the bold setting please. I didn't see any difference between "bold" and 600. Thanks!
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Post by Craig on Jul 5, 2024 11:24:32 GMT -8
Interesting. I have never really dabbled past normal and bold before, but i typed my previous post on my phone, and it shows the different weights correctly. On my desktop though, it doesn't. Having a read around, it appears that only bold and normal will work on a desktop as the browsers don't seem to support the other weights, i'm afraid.
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 5, 2024 14:01:21 GMT -8
Thank you! We'll be fine.
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Post by Craig on Jul 6, 2024 2:27:46 GMT -8
Thank you! We'll be fine. No worries ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Sorry i couldn't help more though.
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 6, 2024 4:28:55 GMT -8
Thank you! We'll be fine. No worries ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Sorry i couldn't help more though. Ok. Now when someone uses bold feature to post it's not showing up on my laptop but is on my phone. What is happening? See this post and below: rebooted.proboards.com/post/353211/thread
testing bold here
I can see it here but not on my forum.
![](https://i.imgur.com/ic86fs8.gif)
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Craig
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Post by Craig on Jul 8, 2024 0:21:19 GMT -8
Check what you have set for bold text in your visual editor: admin > themes > advanced styles and css > default forum text > boldChange the value in the font-weight to the bold option. Let me know how that goes ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Sept 6, 2024 12:38:51 GMT -8
sassyfrassy
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April 2014
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 8, 2024 3:02:09 GMT -8
Thanks. No it wasn't working. I went to the "Bold" settings in the text styles settings and it said "inherit" - changed it to bold and now it's working! I think I tried to change the weight of the bold setting to 500 and my laptop wasn't adjusting to it. Some posters like bold and some don't. If someone could figure out why different weights only show on phones that'd be great! Thanks!
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Official Code Helper
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Chris
"'Oops' is the sound we make when we improve"
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horace
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Post by Chris on Jul 8, 2024 5:20:23 GMT -8
Trebuchet I don't see a difference between the 600 weight and bold setting Thanks. No it wasn't working. I went to the "Bold" settings in the text styles settings and it said "inherit" - changed it to bold and now it's working! I think I tried to change the weight of the bold setting to 500 and my laptop wasn't adjusting to it. Some posters like bold and some don't. If someone could figure out why different weights only show on phones that'd be great! Thanks! It all depends on what the font supports. That particular font Trebuchet MS has not been updated since 2001 and is of the older TrueType fonts. It is basically four files representing the four styles that it can represent so will fallback when presented with a weight it cannot produce. ![](https://i.imgur.com/pS415Ux.png) The newer OpenType fonts support variations that allow you to do finer-grain adjustments I'm almost certain Trebuchet is not available as a system font on Android devices (it is, however, shared in the Apple ecosystem), so it would fall back to something like Roboto or something similar. This means it would then be using a font that has OpenType variations built in so it can do finer-grain increments which would explain the better support for font-weight increments on mobile. To be clear, this is all dependent on the device itself and not something under the control of the forum provider.
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sassyfrassy
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April 2014
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Post by sassyfrassy on Jul 8, 2024 9:31:59 GMT -8
[It all depends on what the font supports. That particular font Trebuchet MS has not been updated since 2001 and is of the older TrueType fonts. It is basically four files representing the four styles that it can represent so will fallback when presented with a weight it cannot produce. ![](https://imgur.com/pS415Ux.png) The newer OpenType fonts support variations that allow you to do finer-grain adjustments I'm almost certain Trebuchet is not available as a system font on Android devices (it is, however, shared in the Apple ecosystem), so it would fall back to something like Roboto or something similar. This means it would then be using a font that has OpenType variations built in so it can do finer-grain increments which would explain the better support for font-weight increments on mobile. To be clear, this is all dependent on the device itself and not something under the control of the forum provider. Thank you for this information! Sadly, I said I was using Trebuchet when I'm actually using Tahoma.
Are any of the fonts available to select on this forum - such as either Georgia, Verdana, or Lucida Console an Open Type?
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Official Code Helper
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Chris
"'Oops' is the sound we make when we improve"
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December 2005
horace
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Post by Chris on Jul 8, 2024 17:40:05 GMT -8
Thank you for this information! Sadly, I said I was using Trebuchet when I'm actually using Tahoma.
Are any of the fonts available to select on this forum - such as either Georgia, Verdana, or Lucida Console an Open Type?
OpenType doesn't necessarily mean it is variable. Only version 1.8 ( released in 2016) or later supports variable fonts. You can tell which font uses the OpenType format on your Windows system by looking at the icon next to the font name in the character map application (charmap.exe) dropdown. That information is also available in the control panel fonts folder if you switch to detailed view and then add a column (right-click any existing column) of Font Type to the view. Windows 10 comes with one variable font installed by default named Bahnschrift [*] and windows 11 added Segoe UI Variable [*] further Reading: Variable Font Weights
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