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Questions tagged [fonts]

Questions relating to different typefaces and their use in various Mathematica outputs, including graphics, notebooks and exported output.

Questions relating to different typefaces and their use in various Mathematica outputs, including graphics, notebooks and exported output. Mathematica can style text in notebooks and graphics in a variety of ways. There are a number of issues to watch out for regarding font embedding in PDF output.

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Is it possible to embed fonts in a .cdf?

I am trying to use a special font with musical symbols in a .cdf that I send to some friends. The font is called "Tempera" and is freely distributed here: http://christian.texier.pagespro-orange.fr/mididesi/free/index.htm#tempera In the .cdf I use…
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Support for pro font families?

While researching this question, I encountered an issue with Mathematica’s font selection mechanism when rich families of pro fonts are used. I can plot text in a given font with: Graphics[Style[Text["iPhone"], FontFamily -> "Myriad Pro",…
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Computer Modern Roman in Mathematica 8.0

What should be command for font style "Computer Modern Roman" in Mathematica, as the default font style of LaTeX is "Computer Modern Roman". Tried this Plot[z^2, {z, 0, 1}, PlotLabel -> StyleForm[z^y, FontFamily -> "CMUSerif-Italic", FontSlant…
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Change font for the whole notebook

Is there any option Mathematica's preferences to change the font for the whole notebook? I know how to change the font of individual cells.
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Set default font for Output

Is it possible to set the font family to Arial for axes, legends and labels globally? I found out about SetOptions[ Legending`GridLegend, Legending`LegendContainer -> (Framed@ Append[#, FontFamily -> "Arial"] &) ]; for legends, but now I am…
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How do I change my font size to 18 points globally?

The default font is WAY too small. I can't read it on my jumbo-size laptop monitor, and my professors can't read my papers when I turn them in. Can somebody please provide DETAILED instructions on how to change the GLOBAL default font size to 18…
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Change font of formula number in DisplayFormulaNumbered

I am trying to change the font of the formula number in a cell which has style DisplayFormulaNumbered. I can easily change the font of the formula I enter by selecting it and using the format menu. But the number to the right of the formula wont…
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Shift text upwards in graphics so characters with descenders clear horizontal lines

Is there an option to align Text to automatically adjust for font descent? In the attached graphic, strings that contain "g" are visibly shifted upward, even though all strings are uniformly rendered by: Text[Style[name, FontFamily -> "Helvetica",…
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Way to input caligraphic letter as a axis label in Mathematica plot

In my paper written in LATEX, I used a symbol $\mathcal{T}$ and I want to put it in the axis label of my plot. However I could not find such functionality in Mathematica. Is it possible?
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What is the font that is most similar to latex fonts?

I am producing mathematica graphs so I hope the axis font can be as similar to latex fonts as possible. This is because I need to put them in a latex document. $\LaTeX$ and Mathematica What is stated in the above link is quite difficult and I do not…
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Greek letters don't depending of the font

For some reason mathematica (11.0.1 Windows 10 64-bit) does no use greek letter font from the selected font by FontFamily -> "AnyFont" When I check the lambda character for any font with : Take[$FontFamilies, All]; Style[\[Lambda], FontFamily ->…
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Is there any automatic way to use specific font specifically for math?

I am trying to mimic the look of Wolfram|Alpha, which uses the Bitstream fonts Charter (for math and some text) and Vera Sans (for most text and things like units after numbers). Is there any automatic way to achieve this in a formatted notebook…
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How to change default font?

Sometimes even I change the text font from arial to courier new, when a new formula cell is created, things inside become arial again. How to tackle this problem? Furthermore, is it possible to change the default font?
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Need better font control

Generally many programs have a menu item to raise/lower current font size. This is much more convenient than trying to root around in in internal mathematica options. I need to change ALL default fonts not just particular ones. For instance the…
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FontFamily output font does not match font name

There is a font named XITS in my computer. And the percent with it is However, in Mathematica, Style["%", FontFamily -> "XITS", 20] output it as Times New Roamn. So, where is the problem?
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