[foamy]

I didn't find an answer to this after a quick search of this forum, so here it goes.

Is there a way to force Safari to use a font of choice? Even better, is there a way to force Safari to substitute one font for another?

Often sites use Times New Roman, which is hideous IMO, and I'd like to force those fonts to be Lucida or Verdana.

Ideas?

[t_hah]

Have you tried the the font setting in Safari preferences?
You can also create a style sheet and force Safari to use that for pages. That is also accessible from the Preferences window.


t

[foamy]

Yeah, I tried the fonts panel in the prefs and I have the fonts I like selected, however, if the page specifies a font then Safari uses that font. In Camino, for example, there is a button that basically says "Use only the fonts I've selected". It works, but Camino has been so crash happy lately that I'm starting to use Safari more and more.

I'm interested in the CSS method of overriding a page's font settings (if this is possible), but I don't know a whole lot of CSS, so if anyone has any suggestions for altering all instances of Times New Roman, or just forcing the Serif fonts to be something like Lucida Grande, I would appreciate it very much.

Espumoso

[t_hah]

Open up TextEdit, or any other text editor program. Paste the following lines in it:

body {
font-size: 9px;
font-family: Lucida Grande;
}

Then save the file under some name, but give it '.css' extension. For example, 'mystyle.css'.

Then in Safaeri Preferences select the Advanced panel, and from the pulldown menu select Other...

Locate your style sheet that you have created above. Restart Safari and you are done.
I just gave it a try and it seems that it will not work with pages that use their own style sheet, but will work with ones without.

You can edit the font to whatever else you want to use, and play around with the font size to make it better for your self.

Good luck,


t

EDIT: OOps, sorry for putting Times in there...I fixed it now.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by t_hah:
Open up TextEdit, or any other text editor program. Paste the following lines in it:

body {
font-size: 9px;
font-family: times;
}

Then save the file under some name, but give it '.css' extension. For example, 'mystyle.css'.

Then in Safaeri Preferences select the Advanced panel, and from the pulldown menu select Other...

Locate your style sheet that you have created above. Restart Safari and you are done.
I just gave it a try and it seems that it will not work with pages that use their own style sheet, but will work with ones without.

Good luck,


t

Actually it does work with sites with stylesheets for me. He doesn't want to use Times, he wants to replace all instances of Times or any serifs with Lucida Grande or Verdana.

Anyways, if you want everything to become Lucida Grande you can just use this line in a .css file as t_hah outlined above:

* { font-family: "Lucida Grande" }

It isn't really possible to JUST change fonts to Lucida Grande if they are serif unless the site uses font tags then you can do this:

font[face~="serif"],font[face~="Times New Roman"],font[face~="Times"],font[face~="Georgia"] { font-family: "Lucida Grande" }

But that will only work on some websites, so I'd suggest against it. The line I gave earlier should work well though. Good luck.