Chris Williams wrote:
>For the first time, someone is getting closer to what I want!
>
>This FontMatch tool is the closest thing yet. Thank you.
>
>However, it seems really silly that Windows and/or Mac OS/X can't be simply
>asked, "if I gave you this font spec, on this computer (with all it's
>installed fonts), what actual font did (would) you respond with?" Seems
>like a simple, algorithmic (rather than OCR) solution would be possible,
>even easy. After all, the OS is doing the font mapping, why can't you
>inquire what it did?
>
>Thanks again for your work on my behalf, I think I'll twiddle with this
>FontMatch thingy...
>
>Chris
>
Hi Chris,
Perhaps some other tips you can use.
1. From the Favelet Suite of Slayeroffice you can use the MODI2-tool
(Mouseover DOM Inspector) to hover over a piece of text in a site,
in order to see the parent structure in a wink. For instance on
your homepage: the first paragraph of the text is has no special
attributes, and is built up in the hierarchy [ html, body,
#pg-wrap, #pg-body, .normal, #main, .box ]. - In this way you have
the node, but not yet the font-properties.
Download MODI at Slayeroffice
<http://slayeroffice.com/tools/modi/v2.0/modi_help.html>.
2. In Chris Pederick's FF Web Developer Extension is, among lots of
other good things, also a DOM-inspector (menu Tools >
DOM-inspector). If you click the node (found in MODI) in the left
pane, then in the right pane you have the option "Computed style",
giving the result of the css-hierarchy on that point. - In this
list: also the indicated font-family. - Check first font face in
the System Font Directory; if present > that's him! If not, take
second, and so on.
Probably you've it already, but for safety the download link for
the WebDeveloper <http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/>.
3. Should be great if there was a tool which could combine the
hovering of the MODI and the computed font face of the
WebDeveloper! > Searched the other FF Developers Extensions, but
nothing alike. :-(
But sometimes things are already at home ... then I rediscovered in the
Webdeveloper a forgotten option: menu CSS > View Style Information.
Cross hair pointer is coming, hover to the right place, click left, and:
new page is coming with css property list > in your site is used {
font-family: Georgia, serif; }. :-)
In the meantime, the status bar is giving the hierarchy from html to
this p style on line 148 of your stylesheet.
(Double checking can be done with the menu CSS > View CSS > page coming
with all used css styles > FF-menu Edit > Search "font" and click Next
until finished.)
Some other links:
* List of Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents:
here <http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html>.
* Or specified in Win-versions: here
<http://www.kayskreations.net/fonts/fonttb.html>.
* If really nothing helps: "What Font Are You?"
<http://quizilla.com/users/jynxjynx/quizzes/What%20Font%20Are%20You%3F%20%28Standard%20Fonts%29/>
:-)
Greetings,
francky
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