Hi.

I am trying to compare different fonts on a web page. The web page is currently being built), however I am unable to see the style of font it is. Eg ariel or Verdana. (I'm not artistic at all and I have no idea)

Is there a way to tell what the type of font is. I tired coping it into word and it just went to the default. I tried doing the same in outlook and it seemed to work, but I'm not sure. I also tried the source code but it wasn't there.

If anyone would know a way to do this. It would be a great help.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for you time and help
Loydx

Are you sure there is no way to look at the html? If you take the webpage you are trying to get the font from, and open it in Internet Explorer, then click "View," then click "Source" it will show you the source code and hopefully you can dig it out from there. If you have any problems, please feel free to ask!

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Originally Posted by loydx

Hi.

I am trying to compare different fonts on a web page. The web page is currently being built), however I am unable to see the style of font it is. Eg ariel or Verdana. (I'm not artistic at all and I have no idea)

Is there a way to tell what the type of font is. I tired coping it into word and it just went to the default. I tried doing the same in outlook and it seemed to work, but I'm not sure. I also tried the source code but it wasn't there.

If anyone would know a way to do this. It would be a great help.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for you time and help
Loydx

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As Wzar suggested, right click on a blank area of the page and choose View Source. This will open up the page in Notepad and display the source text file with the HTML tags. Look for Font tags.

One point about fonts on pages. The page can only display a font if you have it on your system. So if you use an exotic font on your page and the user doesn't have it, then it may default to something else on their system. That's why its best to use standard fonts. If you want to get fancy, convert the text to a graphic.

If looking at the HTML doesn't help, then you may need to look at the style sheet.

At the top of the HTML source may be a link starting something similar to:

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style/style.css"...

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What you'll need to do then is change the address in your browser to point to the style sheet. For example if you are viewing "http://www.somewhere.com/mypages/index.html" and you want to access the stylesheet shown in the example above, you will need to enter "http://www.somewhere.com/mypages/style/style.css" into the address bar.

When you are in the style sheet, do a search for font-family or font-face. That'll give you the fonts used.

This might not work though - the stylesheet classes might be in a folder the public can't access. Give it a shot though,

Thanks a lot for your help

I will take a look

Lloyd