Firefox: Figuring out rendered FONTS
Jorge Fábregas
jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 01:28:31 UTC 2008
Hello everyone,
After recently reading the latest Fedora Weekly News (some threads on Firefox
fonts) I decided to ask this :)
Is there really a way to figure out the final rendered font when viewing a
page? You see, I always have a have a hard time configuring the fonts on my
Linux systems (specially Firefox). To work around this issue I had to figure
out first what was the requested font on a particular section of a page. I'm
just lucky that I found the "Font Finder" extension for Firefox where
basically I'll highlight some text and it will tell me the corresponding
code. I see something like:
font-family: calibri, tahoma, arial, sans-serif
That's cool, I don't have to dig into CSS files etc....However, I really have
no idea what font Firefox finally used to render the section. I'm not good at
identifying the subtle differences between similar fonts...so VISUAL
identification is out of the question :) Is there a way to know this for
sure? Is there a way I could turn some debug mode in Firefox so that when it
is rendering a page it will give something like this:
REQUESTED FONT FOR THIS SECTION:
font-family: calibri, tahoma, arial, sans-serif
ACTION:
1) calibri not available, tryng next...
2) tahoma not available, trying next...
3) arial FOUND ------> USING ARIAL
Am I asking too much ? :)
Thanks in advance,
Jorge
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