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Tweak says, "The bird of hermes is my name."

taylor (llem) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2012-11-04 00:47:00

alright, i'm completely clueless and thought i would ask for some help! i apologize if this has already been answered but does anyone know how to use a font in a journal entry to write out the character's name? an example of what i'm looking for can be found here and here. thank you!

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	nympholepsy 2012-11-04 08:53 am UTC (link)
	looks like they're using google webfonts! here's a tutorial that might help (Reply to this) (Thread)

	llem 2012-11-05 03:09 am UTC (link)
	thank you so much! now, i may be completely missing this but if a font won't show up in an entry how do you put it in the layout's css for that entry to show up on the journal like the ones i linked did? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nympholepsy
2012-11-05 10:56 am UTC (link)

urgh, i know someone did a step-by-step instruction on how to install google fonts for people with no css experience, but now i can't find it. maybe it never got tagged. hm.

anyway, the code for the font goes where the rest of the layout's coding does, in the overrides section under customize journal. the tutorial explains how to do that, under "utilising your font".

the font shows up when you view

kappes's layout, but when you click the entry, you see it's a different font. that's because the entry page uses a different stylesheet from the layout's coding, so it doesn't recognise the font you told it to use. google fonts will only show up when you view your layout, not the actual comment pages.

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nympholepsy
2012-11-04 08:58 am UTC (link)

i should have added - google fonts cannot be used in the entry itself, afaik, only in the layout's css; if you click the entry pages for the examples you linked, the names show up as times new roman (or whatever your computer has as its default font).

if you don't want to fuss with google fonts, you can pick a font that's pretty commonly preinstalled on most computers (courier new, impact, georgia, century gothic, whatevs) and use this code

and adjust the font size to your liking. you can add other embellishments by googling 'css text effects'

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