Working with Fonts

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There are several things you should know if you work with fonts and font styles on websites.

Fonts and font styles are handled in font templates. Select nothing (the project properties appear) and click on Project > Font Templates > Choose... on the properties panel. A list of all font templates appears.

The first template on the list is the Master Template. Here you can store the default font style for your website. If you don't set a special font for all other font templates, or components, the style of the master template is used. Double click on a font template to rename it.

Add a font template.

Duplicate a selected font template.

Delete a selected font template.

Opens the font editor and you can edit the font template.

Click on the Edit Font Template button. The font editor will be opend.

The following option can be set in the font editor. Note that there are sometimes not all options avaiable. It depends on the item from which you edit the font style.

Font templateChoose the font template, on which the font style is based. The style is taken from the font template.
FontActivate this to overwrite the font from the font template.
StyleActivate this to overwrite the font style of the font template.
SizeActivate this to overwrite the font size of the font template.
ColorActivate this to overwrite the color from the font template.
Line spaceActivate this to overwrite the line space from the font template.
AlignmentActivate this to overwrite the alignment of the font template.

If you change the style in a font template, this changes apply to all font styles which use this font template and where the changed style property isn't overwritten.

A font can only be displayed if the visitor has it installed on his computer. So it's better to declare a list of fonts, where the first font which is found will be used. Click on the button Alternative font family next to the font selector.

Add an alternative font family.

Delete a selected alternative font family.

The list is processed from the top to the bottom. The first font which is found on the visitor's computer is used.


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