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FCarreto

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Jan 5, 2012, 11:53:00 AM1/5/12
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It is possible to change the Google Maps font-type or color?
I know that a color of a label can be changed, but the border of the letters remains in the same color, and it stays unreadable..

Pil

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Jan 6, 2012, 12:08:05 AM1/6/12
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There is no singular "Map Font".

There are the fonts on the map tiles that cannot be changed.
Then there are the fonts in the map type buttons and its "popouts"
that are changeable by CSS and with the browser font preferences, as
well as the font in the copyright notice, the terms of use and the
font in the title tooltips.

The default font of all these changeable fonts seems to be Arial.
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FCarreto

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Jan 6, 2012, 8:28:49 AM1/6/12
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Ok, thanks Pil...
The problem is that i can change the color of a label using the drawing library, but the border of the letters stay in the same color, which makes that label blurred...

Andrew Leach

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Jan 6, 2012, 8:28:56 AM1/6/12
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On 6 January 2012 13:24, FCarreto <fabioca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> It is possible to change the font variant or the font color of a label in
> the map?
> For example, change the font of an administrative label to Comic Sans...

Asking the question again doesn't change the answer.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/8a676a77ecb85f4d

"There are the fonts on the map tiles that cannot be changed."

So: No, you can't change the fonts of the text on the map tiles.

(I can't imagine why you want Comic Sans anyway, but that's an
entirely different matter :-)

FCarreto

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Jan 6, 2012, 8:37:49 AM1/6/12
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Sorry, my mistake for posting again.
Anyway I explain above the reason of my question, and no, i don't
whant to change my font to comic sans, tha's an example.
Anyway thanks to all of you.

On 6 Jan, 08:28, Andrew Leach <andrew.leac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 January 2012 13:24, FCarreto <fabiocarret...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > It is possible to change the font variant or the font color of a label in
> > the map?
> > For example, change the font of an administrative label to Comic Sans...
>
> Asking the question again doesn't change the answer.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/th...
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