You just missed an initialization step I think. You can see what fonts you have available with the command windowsFonts(). For example mine looks like this when I started looking at this: > windowsFonts() $serif [1] “TT Times New Roman” $sans [1] “TT Arial” $mono [1] “TT Courier New” After intalling the package extraFont and … Read more
You can extend TextView to set custom fonts as I learned here. TextViewPlus.java: package com.example; import android.content.Context; import android.content.res.TypedArray; import android.graphics.Typeface; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.util.Log; import android.widget.TextView; public class TextViewPlus extends TextView { private static final String TAG = “TextView”; public TextViewPlus(Context context) { super(context); } public TextViewPlus(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); setCustomFont(context, … Read more
This could be done via CSS: <style type=”text/css”> @font-face { font-family: “My Custom Font”; src: url(http://www.example.org/mycustomfont.ttf) format(“truetype”); } p.customfont { font-family: “My Custom Font”, Verdana, Tahoma; } </style> <p class=”customfont”>Hello world!</p> It is supported for all of the regular browsers if you use TrueType-Fonts (TTF), the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) or Embedded Opentype (EOT).
It’s possible with css3 but it’s not supported in all browsers With background-clip: text; you can use a background for the text, but you will have to align it with the background of the page body { background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat; margin:10px; } h1 { background-color:#fff; overflow:hidden; display:inline-block; padding:10px; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial; color:transparent; font-size:200px; } span { … Read more
Can I embed a custom font in an iPhone application?
Once you go past 100% (or 125% with the “XP-style DPI scaling” checkbox ticked), Windows by default takes over the scaling of your UI. It does so by having your app render its output to a bitmap and drawing that bitmap to the screen. The rescaling of that bitmap makes the text inevitably look fuzzy. … Read more
The <h2> tag is a block level element, which means it will take up the full width and not allow anything to be positioned next to it. You can overwrite this behavior in CSS by using inline-block: h2 { display: inline-block; } inline-block is really nice because it allows the element to be positioned ‘inline’, … Read more