[netsurf-users] Re: Fonts

Ah, so it's really only for if it comes across a particular character not available the default font (Homerton.Medium on RISC OS?) it will see if it can get it from A.N.Other font, you think?

Kinda hoping you could write some CSS styling like

@font-face { font-family: 'customfont'; src: url('<Font$Path>.SomeRISCfont') }

body { font-family: customfont; }

so if the page is rendered on RISC OS it would use the specified SomeRISCfont and if it was on non-RISC OS it would fall back on standard fonts on that system.

Chris.
Drag N Drop | Publications for RISC OS computers | www.dragdrop.co.uk

On 29 November 2025 16:55:36 GMT, Paul Sprangers <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
>In article <9152F4A5-E371-4F53-819C-46AAEB402C99@dragdrop.co.uk>,
> Drag N Drop <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
>
>> I've always wondered what the point is of Netsurf scanning and keeping a
>> file of information about fonts.
>
>As far as I've understood, NetSurf scans all active fonts in order to be
>able to display as many different pages as possible, particularly pages
>that contain other characters than the Latin1 ones.
>
>Paul
>