showing # symbol in quicksand at light / 300

Hi Joe,

Do you have any examples of a specific font that happens with? Is the expected font actually displaying? Is the # even in the page (checking the source) or could it have been removed from the content by another plugin?

Send me a link to a problem page if you like.

Hi Jason

Yes to all. Thank you for looking at this. Just to be very clear, your plugin is not the problem – but I was hoping it would be the solution!

If you look at the slider at the top of the homepage on:
https://devree.carciofino.co.uk/ both posts should be showing a # symbol before the word ad.

If you look in the code view you can see that line 872 shows font-weight: 300. If you change this to font-weight: normal then the # symbol displays. I’ve done that for the time being on the live site: https://www.reallyree.com/ – ideally we would prefer to continue using the lighter weight.

The font is quicksand.

If you need any other info or would like admin access to my dev site then please just let me know.

Thanks very much.

Joel

Try it in typecast:

https://typecast.com/preview/google/Quicksand

The “#” glyph is simply not there for the light (300) version of the Quicksand font. Raise that as a bug with Google – it certainly looks like someone has overlooked it. I think the only way around this in the meantime will be to use a different font.

In theory you could deliberately NOT load the 300 font from Google but still tell the browser to display it with a 300 weight. Some browsers may make a good attempt at lightening the normal (400) font; some may not do it well and some may not even try to. Might be worth trying, but probably not worth the effort as results will not necessarily be consistent.

Or you could try a similar looking character (until the font is fixed) such as ? (Viewdata Square 0x2317) which does seem to work with that font and weight – try out the brilliant https://shapecatcher.com/ site to find unicode characters that look like something you need.

“?” is NOT “#” – try copying from this post. Best of luck!

Thank you so much for supplying such a comprehensive response.

The client is using the # in their post titles to indicate an ad so I think trying to get them to use a special character coudl be complicated.

For now I’ve gone to normal weight which I think will be preferable to using a different font.

Will try the Google route – you never know.

Thank you again for taking the time to look at this for me.

Joel

You could try a lighter colour to get at least the same density in the design.

Thank you – yes that has helped ??