I’ve been reading through the guide to good typography Nice articles on Typography and thought I’d try a ‘good’ font, so I downloaded charter as recommended by the author of practical typography.
Now my instructions to do fonts were:
check for a font you like
make sure its license allows you to embed, modify, publish on the web or redistribute the font as you intent to (links about licenses)
upload your font file (".ttf", “.eot”, “.woff”, etc) and select “Expert” option
check the option case at CSS >> Base64 Encode
generate your webkit: the output file is a “.zip” file containing a text file with the CSS code (stylesheet.css)
copy all text from that file into a tiddler
make sure the field font-family is what you want
tag the tiddler [$:/tags/Stylesheet] and change the tiddler type to “Plain text (text/plain)”
This however is failing to work.
I’ve tried a few other things I found on the forums, but can’t find again now (I was trying this a week or so ago, but only at a keyboard now).
I’m sure this is an 1d0t kind of an error but any help appreciated.
My flailing attempts can be found in the recents tab here:
It looks like you’re missing this step. When I add font-family: Charter, and then test this tiddler:
title: Font test
Plain text.
<p style="font-family: Arial">Some Arial text is here</p>
<p style="font-family: Charter">Some Chater text is here</p>
More plain text.
I see the lines of Arial and Charter appropriately.
What @Scott_Sauyet said — or, of course, to get your new beautifully legible font everywhere, specify Charter in your Control Panel (Appearance > Theme Tweaks > Settings)
