#12

Don’t know, honestly. It was the library’s computer…

#13

Okay, I’ll find it with Google. Ta.

#14

:confused: The library’s computer, or the font? :laughing:

#15

Yup.

:face_with_monocle:

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#16

How exactly does one find a font from an image using Google? This sounds like some seriously useful arcane knowledge!

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#17

I was a graphic technician in a former job. Whilst my font knowledge is probably rather rusty, I know what to look for.

In fact, both my brothers are graphic artists, so I probably just need to ask them, next time I bump into them.

On closer look, it’s something really bland that was made a bit more interesting by the pixelation and varied focus. Never mind.

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#18

Rats - I was hoping to get some tips on figuring out types!

Anyway, the site uses “Roboto” via an @font-face in one of the files, and I’m fairly sure that’s the font being displayed in the relevant screen shot. If I’m wrong, I’ll go read a Discworld book as penance. If I’m right, I’ll go read a Discworld book as celebration.

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#19

Then clearly someone needs to make an actual font that looks like that.

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#20

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
and yes, Roboto is a very likely candidate, but on a low res screen which seems to have resulted in odd kerning and vertical thickness variation! The capitals are very interesting. To me. Especially the ‘H’ and ‘J’.

@VaultHunter101 I still haven’t read ‘The Shepherds Crown’. I just can’t. That would mean it was really The End.

#21

I can understand that. I took a break to read other stuff, but just came back and read “Carpe Jugulum”. My goodness, that was so apropos given current events. Just goes to show how little human nature changes.

#22

I…I donut understand, @Psychichazard. Was the font horrible, or do you like it?

#23

It was interesting, that’s all. It’s also confirmed that my opticians appointment is overdue.

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#24

At one point my faulty internet connection caused the entire forum to load only in an odd copperplate font which I still have never seen again. Weird.

#25

What’s the default font in your browser? Mine is set to Times so, when the site CSS doesn’t load properly, the forums look rather… different.

#26

Interesting. :thinking: I wonder what will make it load in Comic Sans…? (@Raven_Ghosthawk commences quick and excited fast and furious researching)

Mine personally is set to Arial for most everything, Consolas for ‘fixed-width’.

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#27

Why am I not surprised

#28
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#29

Font-family: Grauniad was not available, and I refuse to use Telegraph!

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#30

Mine defaults to Calibri. Don’t think it was Times, the serifs were smaller.

#31
the serifs were smaller
I shrunk the serifs...

Apologies for bumping this yet again (albeit for indirect reasons), but I’m quite sure that I’m behind on quite a few notifications. Not sure if I made mention or not, but the other reason for this was not just someone wanting to keep updated, but also for catching up if they’ve been away for quite some time.

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