So, you'd like to use custom fonts in your Livejournal. How do you do that?

Web typography has a long history, but in this day and age, you'll want to use CSS, specifically the CSS3 Fonts module. You'll need two things:

1. A file containing the font, in a format that browsers can consume: TTF, OTF, WOFF or SVG.
2. A @font-face declaration somewhere in ( Read more... )

365 days of SL, day 36:


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Are there any unicode/font/... geeks who can explain to me (in simple words) why the character ⏠ ("U+23E0 TOP TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET") causes some following characters to appear larger than normal? E.g., using ⎝ ("U+239D LEFT PARENTHESIS LOWER HOOK"):

⎝⏠⎝

(If you can't see the above, or if it all looks fine to you, here's ( Read more... )