Different Fonts On Different Computers

  • Hi,

    I recently set up a wordpress site with Customizr. First off: great theme; thank you!

    The fonts display correctly on the machine I’m developing on, but when I use the site on another computer, the font used for the navigation bar looks really odd.

    Does anyone know why this might be? I have created a child theme, so I could update the font family if this is the problem.

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  • Depends what fonts are available on either computer. Was one a PC and the other a Mac, as they have different fonts.

    Different browsers will display in different ways too.

    You’ll never achieve a 100% consistent look I’m afraid (until we all use Apple Safari ??

    Thread Starter fractalsea

    (@fractalsea)

    Thank you for the response!

    The are both Windows PCs — Win7 and the other is XP

    I have taken screenshots of the fonts from both.

    This is on mine: https://i.imgur.com/9ub52Jh.png

    This is the strange on: https://i.imgur.com/YzuNGSL.png

    Do you know of a way of finding out which font it is actually using?

    Depends which browser you’re using, but there are Extensions/Plugins available.

    eg Chrome – WhatFont (Tools/Extensions)

    Hi fractalsea

    On my PC, which runs on Vista, the default Customizr nav bar looks like the “strange” one in your second screenshot. I agree it looks very bad.

    rdellconsulting may well be right that a 100% consistent look will never be achieved but it’s unusual to see such an unpleasant and seemingly widespread variation.

    Unfortunately, I can’t help with a fix. I just really hope something can be done about this in future versions of Customizr.

    Thread Starter fractalsea

    (@fractalsea)

    Thanks for the replies guys.

    rdellconsulting: I will check out that plugin tonight (I use Chrome).

    RussWilley: That’s reassuring to know that others experience this wide variation in fonts, and it’s not something I messed up in the child theme.

    I think I will use the font extension to work out which font it is using on each and then hack the CSS in the child theme to make the font family much more standard.

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