Why does some website text look bad on Windows?
Look at the difference between these two 50px headers that use the Georgia font: The top one is from IE8 on Windows Vista, whereas the bottom one is from Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu 9.04. On Windows, the text is clearly less pleasant on the eye? It is has jagged edges, has a pixel or two […]
Using the Purisa Light font on a Website
If you want to use the “Purisa Light” font on your Linux hosted website, you can follow the following steps: Copy the font file from your desktop machine to your webserver. On Ubuntu the “Purisa Light” font file is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf. e.g: scp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf <username>@<webhost>:/<pathToWebsite>/fonts/Purisa.ttf Add the font face to your stylesheet: Now you […]
Installing fonts in Ubuntu
If you have a font file with a “ttf” extension you can easily install it in Ubuntu (v9.04) and use it in applications such as the Gimp. Essentially, all you have to do is drop it in the correct folder: cd /usr/local/share/fonts If the truetype/custom directory doesn’t exist already: sudo mkdir truetype sudo mkdir truetype/custom […]
