{"id":27901,"date":"2024-02-20T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2024-02-20T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:14:21","slug":"the-thing-about-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-thing-about-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/thing3.png\" alt=\"The thing about fonts -Cloudeight\" width=\"547\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We love fonts. I must have 200 fonts installed. we use them when making logos or headers for posts or newsletters, or use them when creating graphics for our tips and tricks and articles.\u00a0 And while fonts look cool if you use them to compose emails or social media posts unless the person reading it has the same font you used installed on their computer, they won&#8217;t see your fancy fonts, they&#8217;ll see it in their default system font which on Windows is currently Segoe UI.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here we&#8217;ll show you &#8230; we wrote the following a font called Komika Axis. And since the example below is a screenshot, you can see the Komika Axis font as we used it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/fontsrcool.png\" alt=\"One thing you should know about fonts... Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"532\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But if you don&#8217;t have the Komika Axis font installed, what you will see will be something like this&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You might think fonts are cool &#8211; we sure do.\u00a0 But the thing about fonts many people don&#8217;t know is that for other people to see them, they need to have the same font installed on their computer or whatever device they&#8217;re reading the email on. otherwise, they will see your font as their default font which is usually something uninteresting like Arial or Segoe UI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You&#8217;re seeing this font because it&#8217;s a picture of an email, but if I sent this to you, and you did not have the &#8220;Komika Axis&#8221; font installed, you would see it in your device&#8217;s default font.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This is not only true when you write emails but also when you post on any of your social media accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It looks cool to you &#8211; but others will not see your special fonts unless <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">they have them installed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Your pals &#8211; TC &amp; Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So if you&#8217;re like us and you love fonts, keep in mind that if you use them in emails and\/or social media posts unless the people reading your email or posts have the same font installed on their device, people won&#8217;t see your super-duper fancy fonts&#8230;they&#8217;ll see whatever you wrote in their device&#8217;s bland system font.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Yes, You Can Embed Fonts If You Really Want To<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Oh yes, there are ways around this such as embedding fonts, but that&#8217;s a geeky thing that requires a lot of expertise most people aren&#8217;t going to even want to mess with, but if you want to know about embedded fonts &#8230; you can embed fonts in Word documents, PDF files, PowerPoint presentations and websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And yes, you can embed fonts in HTML email with certain email clients but it takes some advanced HTML knowledge and editing that most people won&#8217;t want to do. But just to cover all the bases, if you want to embed fonts in email <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/fonts\/using\/html-email.html\">read this Adobe tutorial<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love fonts. I must have 200 fonts installed. we use them when making logos or headers for posts or newsletters, or use them when creating graphics for our tips and tricks and articles.\u00a0 And while fonts look cool if you use them to compose emails or social media posts unless the person reading it has the same\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-thing-about-fonts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,2537,1683],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27901"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27911,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions\/27911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}