So if you want Black and Bold and Thin on a single web page, most people won’t have that font on their computer and when used as a Web Font it would mean 3 downloads totally 600k. It seems to contain Japanese Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji. I had not heard of Montserrat until you mentioned it. Also note that Hiragino is a Mac-only font, while YuGothic and Meiryo are Windows-only fonts. YuGothic in particular looks quite bad to my eyes, whereas Meiryo looks good most of the time. But I would advice that people linking to local Japanese fonts first check how those fonts look on your webpage. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
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So in my SoftPress Freeway documents, I have a “Times” Font Set that includes Times and also Times New Roman and then “serif.” Having fallback is the right thing to do when using local fonts, an it would seem like a good idea to use at least some local fonts to avoid the situation if your web visitors having to download web fonts before they can see any text in your site. Who doesn’t have Times, right? So I would want to create a Font Set of sorts in Blocs based on the Times font, but I would also want to setup fallback in the rare event that someone out there lacks that otherwise ubiquitous font.
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Let’s say I want to add Times as a local font, which is a standard font on Windows and Mac. So when I speak about “Font Sets” in my opening post, I am not just asking about Japanese. For truly, does every Blocs user really use Google web fonts exclusively, with no local fonts other than Helvetica? Seems strange to me if true.
My opening post centers on Japanese fonts, but the main thrust of what I seek applies to English fonts too.
(Think of Gothic as a font shape similar to Helvetica, whereas Mincho is a font shaped like Times.)Īll said, how do I conveniently get control over Japanese fonts in Blocs? But there are times I want certain text to display as a Mincho font, not Gothic. When I type Japanese in Blocs, it displays as a Gothic font, which is nice, and when I preview in Safari, it also displays in Gothic, which is nice. There are no Japanese local font choices offered in Blocs at all. And Helvetica is the lone “local” font (not a web font) that is offered. (English has 26 letters but Japanese has a few thousand characters.)īlocs is setup to offer various Google web fonts for English, which is fine when using English but not when using Japanese (or Chinese, for people who need that). This is critically important because you typically won’t find Japanese WEB FONTS due to the fact they would be too big to download, unlike English fonts. I can type Japanese text in Blocs just fine, but I don’t see a way to setup Japanese fonts in Blocs as I do in Freeway. The problem in Blocs is that I want to achieve the same thing I can accomplish in Freeway.
If I did not setup my font set this way, the font people would see in their browser would vary wildly, which I consider highly undesirable. And the absolute worst case fallback is Sans-Serif. I added MS PGothic as a fallback for people who have really old Windows machines which don’t have Meiryo. A Windows user who visits my site would see the text in Meiryo since Meiryo is a standard Windows font. If a visitor to my Japanese website (built in Freeway) is using a Mac, then they would see all the Japanese text in Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, since that font is on their MacOS X computer. Specifically, I setup a Screen Font as “Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro” (a standard MacOS Japanese font, since I use a Mac), and I then setup the following as “Alternative Fonts” that will be chosen in the browser, based on the type of device the user has: For example, I created a font set named “Gothic” so I can apply that to my Japanese text and have it display properly as a Gothic style Japanese font in the browser. In SoftPress Freeway, the Edit menu contains a command called “Font Sets” that allows me to create a new font set with any fonts I like.
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