Hindi Like English Font
Jeana Rodia
I am new to web development. And in my sample project to get icons I have included the font-awesome plugin ( ). And I can select all sort of icons available. But I have two three project specific images like the project logo.
A png is a bitmap image style and an SVG is a vector-based graphics design which supports bitmaps so it's not as if it would convert the image to vectors, just an image embedded in a vector-based format. You could do this using which is free. It would embed it, however it also has a Live Trace like engine which will try to convert it to paths if you wish (using potrace).
Question 2: I searched a little and then found that the are nothing but files with svg extension. So, if I convert the images that I already have in SVG format will that be sufficient.
You could add it to the font-awesome library manually. On the other hand, instead of pulling out your hair doing it, you should use an online tool that helps you create a custom library for your icons. I've used Icomoon, and flaticon with success in the past.
Few if any fonts have "full support for Unicode". Unicode 6.0 has 109,449 code points. It's quite expensive from a design perspective to manually create each one of those glyphs when most people will only be using a small fraction of them, not to mention from a file size perspective.
Beyond that, there's just the Unicode BMP Fallback SIL font, which is a debugging font. It covers all Unicode 5.1 code points, but each glyph is just a rectangular box containing the hex code for that code point. And most OSes come with this font and will display it when a Unicode font lacks a glyph for a particular character.
I mean, it's possible there might be a crazy typographer or foundry out there who's created a font with glyphs for all Unicode 5.1 or 6.0 code points, but it would probably be really, really expensive.
Most people would rather just have fonts that cover specific language blocks and use multiple fonts to provide full multilingual support. Especially as different families of languages have intrinsically different typographic styles, so the glyphs would end up looking very different anyway.
Edit: As Mr Lister pointed out, no font at present can support the full Unicode character set since each font can only contain 65536 glyphs max. You might be able to exceed this limit with TruTypeCollections but they would still be separate fonts, just in a single file.
Of course, this won't always look too good, but in your case, you say that the extra characters you need are mostly mathematical symbols. These look quite distinct from normal Latin letters anyway, so the mismatch between different fonts may not be so apparent as it might otherwise be, especially if you choose the fallback font carefully.
I know this is an old question but I figured that as a programmer I might be able to offer up some advice. I use FreeMono on all of my text editors and IDEs. It looks quite similar to Courier New and has better support for Unicode. From the information I can obtain from the font files themselves, Courier New supports 3,248 different characters while FreeMono supports 4,177 characters. I'm not sure exactly how much support FreeMono haS for the math and logic Unicode symbols, but I do know that it is better than Courier New by a considerable margin.
Looks like this question remains unanswered. In order to be able to use these icons as part of a font we need to maintain a map of each icon and its corresponding unicode. Does Icons8 provide a utility to make this easier during font creation? Can it generate a cheatsheet of each icon and its unicode?
If you create an icon collection on our site, you can choose the Font option in the download dialog.
Then our system generates an archive file that has everything you may need, including an html preview-file with a cheatsheet:
This has also happened to me for a client's site! I'm not even using custom fonts on this site. I can see all the correct fonts in editing mode but the live mode suddenly changed last week all to Times. I removed the (very limited) custom CSS, cleared my cache, opened it in an incognito window. I've scrubbed the backend for any additional coding the client might have put in (she didn't but I wanted to double check).
Hey there, I built a site for a client using Squarespace's fonts (no custom uploaded fonts on this one). I can see all the correct fonts in editing mode but the live mode suddenly changed last week all to Times New Roman. It's been live for over a month with the exact design I originally created and published and out of nowhere, it changed.
I've tried everything I can think of. I've removed the (very limited) custom CSS, cleared my cache/broswing data, opened it in an incognito window. I've scrubbed the backend for any additional coding the client might have put in (she didn't but I wanted to double check). There's nothing on the site that should be in any way affecting the live view.
I built a site for a client using Squarespace's fonts (no custom uploaded fonts on this one). I can see all the correct fonts in editing mode but the live mode suddenly changed last week all to Times New Roman.
I recommend that you contact Squarespace Customer Care directly about this one as this looks like a bug or a licensing issue with the Typekit font. There's an error message on the site that you may want to refer them to:
When I looked in the fonts menu, the font pack we were using wasn't there anymore, so I thought maybe it had just been disabled by squarespace or something, but I added it back manually and it disappeared again.
Same for me right now, how can I trust this platform if it can't do rudimentary things like render fonts correctly? This should never happen, but when it does SS should treat it as a priority and have it fixed immediately.
I'm seeing the same issue. I left my work session early yesterday after finding this thread...thinking it would resolve...but it hasn't. ? Would really love squarespace to work properly soon!!! Any way to advance this issue with admin??
Suddenly the Futura PT font is not showing correctly in my browser! It appears fine on my mobile Android device, but browsing in Chrome and Edge it is showing me Times New Roman instead - even in the Squarespace back-end.
@Mary-Grace yes, this is an ongoing issue. Please continue to screenshot and report these types of issues to Squarespace via email. They initially said it was an issue with Adobe fonts (like Futura PT), but this is also happening with other fonts as well. It's extremely inconsistent and frustrating. Sometimes you can try to pick a different font, save, then go back to Futura PT and save again and it clears the issue...but it's hit or miss.
@GrandStrand64 yes, this is an ongoing issue. Please continue to screenshot and report these types of issues to Squarespace via email. They initially said it was an issue with Adobe fonts (like Futura PT), but this is also happening with other Google fonts as well. It's extremely inconsistent and frustrating. According to their support, sometimes you can try to pick a different font, save, then go back to your original font and save again and it clears the issue...but it's hit or miss.
I realize that latex's way of doing fonts is pretty complicated (and takes into account stuff like kerning and... other font-related vocabulary that I don't understand.) But I would like to be able to download a nice little font file and install it on my computer and type text in Office or set my system fonts to look like they were typeset in latex.
You probably don't need to install all the variations. Just the 12-point size should work for most applications. The smaller sizes are hinted to make them more legible, but you probably won't need those.
Not sure where to put this; it's not a document per se - it is an example form of formatting that may be of use to others. The attached form (ODK1) gives 14 examples of html and markdown used to format an ODK Collect form.
Most of the information is already available on the Nafundi website, I just find it useful to have on my device in a form.
Thanks, @DavidM, this is great! I've split it out into its own question so it's more likely to come up if anyone searches for styling examples. Feel free to modify the title if you come up with a better one.
Thanks Pierre,
I will update the thread with the info. Weirdlg it looks like some of the basic html isn't working (such as
). It might be worth you sharing your results on their forum to get a response? You have got a few formatting options at least
Just reviving this thread as I was trying to format choices for ODK Collect (v1.18.1) and it is not working. Tried also to preview in Enketo through the XML generated from and it's not working either. Has the markdown for choices been fixed?
I am having an issue styling my application form. I want to add line breaks and perhaps underline some of the text. I read online that may be used which is not working. I also tried setting text-decoration to underline in a span's style and that worked on the web preview but not on the android ODK application. Can anyone guide me on how one might underline a portion of text? And also is there any way to explicitly add a line break to a paragraph. The break tag does not seem to work. I am adding these changes in the label column on an xls form.
It would be beneficial to have more inputs like this, for example for corner radius. This would be a nice convenience feature before creating styles for corner radius and using design tokens is possible.
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