What font does Literotica use?

[tomlitilia]

What font does Literotica use? I thought it might be a good idea to edit stories using the font that it will be published in. I tend to find errors in that font once the stories are published...

 

[SusanJillParker]

What font does Literotica use? I thought it might be a good idea to edit stories using the font that it will be published in. I tend to find errors in that font once the stories are published...

Verdana 9. I never used that myself, never even heard of it.

I like using Times Roman 12.

A better way to find your errors is by submitting it to the Literotica screen with your document open in another window and going from one to the other before publishing your document to Literotica. I always find typos and thoughts that I want to add.

Then, once done editing it, I copy and paste my corrected original to the Literotica screen and let is sit for a few hours or until the next morning where I open it and do the same type of editing all over again.

By the way, if you plan on publishing your stories, I don't know of a publisher tho uses Verdana 9. Most use Times Roman 12.

Good luck with your story.

 

[NotWise]

That's a hard question to answer. The site may use a different font on your system than on mine. It appears on my system that the story text is in Verdana.

I think the options provided are Verdana, Kalimati, Geneva and sans-serif. "Verdana" is the only one on that list that is on my system. "sans-serif" is generic.

I don't know about other browsers, but in Firefox you can select text then right-click on the selected text. That gives you a popup menu. Select "Inspect Element" from that menu and a sub-window opens at the bottom of the page. Font information is shown in the right side of that subwindow.

 

[Weird Harold]

What font does Literotica use? I thought it might be a good idea to edit stories using the font that it will be published in. I tend to find errors in that font once the stories are published...

If you use the same font and font size as Lit, you won't notice the typos the way you do now. The reason you notice those typos is because of the changed appearance from the different font.

If you want to minimize errors with self-editing, change the font, font-size, font color, margins, and anything else you can think of to change the appearance from what you originally typed. Make a different change every editing pass (use at least three editing passes.)

 

[tomlitilia]

If you use the same font and font size as Lit, you won't notice the typos the way you do now. The reason you notice those typos is because of the changed appearance from the different font.

If you want to minimize errors with self-editing, change the font, font-size, font color, margins, and anything else you can think of to change the appearance from what you originally typed. Make a different change every editing pass (use at least three editing passes.)

I do change the font when I edit. I just wanted to change it to the lit font this time.

 

[Handley_Page]

What font does Literotica use? I thought it might be a good idea to edit stories using the font that it will be published in. I tend to find errors in that font once the stories are published...

I think this may depend upon your viewing device.
On my PC, it looks like "Verdanna".

 

[nikyc]

As others have said, it may depend on your device.

If you're using a browser on a computer then checking this is very simple. Every major browser has some kind of developer tool. On Chrome, for example, all you would have to do is right-click the text and then click 'Inspect'. From there on you can scroll through the styles to find what you're looking for. Simpler might be to look at the 'computed' area.

For literotica this is what I get using Chrome:

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif (This basically means that it uses Verdana first, and if the user doesn't have that font, Arial, and so on.)
font-size: 12px
font-weight: normal
line-height: 19px

There's a bunch more but those are the 'interesting' ones.

 

[RejectReality]

Weird Harold has the right of it. The font isn't the magic bullet. It's the combination of the font, the margins, the screen position of the text, and everything else that's making those errors jump out at you.

Honestly, I wouldn't surrender that last line of defense by appropriating part of it into your pre-submission editing process. Change the font when you edit as WH suggests, but don't purposely try to duplicate the Lit preview in any way. That way, when you give it that final read before clicking "Submit" you still have one last chance to catch things because it looks radically different than it does in any other editing pass.

Just noticed you were talking about after posting. Same still applies, regardless. If it becomes part of your regular process, you're less likely to see those errors.

And absolutely read through it one last time in the preview before submission. I tend to catch errors there before they hit the public eye often enough for it to matter.

 

[NotWise]

I have an html "skeleton" set up to mimic the lit page. On some of my stories one of my last steps has been to export it as text, edit the text to replace the double new lines with <br><br>, then embed that in the html doc.

That hasn't helped catch regular editing errors, but it has helped me check the bold and italic text and a few other details.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

As others have said, it may depend on your device.

If you're using a browser on a computer then checking this is very simple. Every major browser has some kind of developer tool. On Chrome, for example, all you would have to do is right-click the text and then click 'Inspect'. From there on you can scroll through the styles to find what you're looking for. Simpler might be to look at the 'computed' area.

For literotica this is what I get using Chrome:

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif (This basically means that it uses Verdana first, and if the user doesn't have that font, Arial, and so on.)
font-size: 12px
font-weight: normal
line-height: 19px

There's a bunch more but those are the 'interesting' ones.

Actually, those are the embedded fonts on the server. The html sent to your browser doesn't give a crap what fonts are on you machine. The font Lit uses are part of the CSS.

 

[nikyc]

Actually, those are the embedded fonts on the server. The html sent to your browser doesn't give a crap what fonts are on you machine. The font Lit uses are part of the CSS.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this seems very uninformed. What fonts are specified in the CSS has nothing to do with what fonts are installed on the server (what a nightmare that would be, having to rely on server font configuration as a developer). Like HTML, CSS simply tells the browser what to look for and display.

'The html sent to your browser doesn't give a crap what fonts are on you machine.'

This is, in essence, true. What does give a crap about what fonts are on my machine, however, is my browser, which interprets the HTML and CSS and has the ultimate say on what is shown to me. What the browser does not care about, though, is what fonts are installed on the server.

If we take this CSS snippet for example:

'font-family: SmilyMcFont, "Funny Font", Verdana, sans-serif'

If that is all I specify then that will indeed tell the browser to look for the font 'SmilyMcFont' first, and the first place it looks (well, more or less) is indeed on the user-agent machine. If it doesn't find it the browser then moves down the list until it finds a font or reaches 'sans-serif', which tells the browser to use the default sans-serif font for that system.

A more likely scenario today, however, is that I have uploaded the fonts I want to use as part of the website source, and then pointed my CSS to it (using the CSS3 @font-face). Another scenario might be that I've imported it from a third party service like Google Fonts or Adobe TypeKit. That might look something like this and is usually specified within the website <head> section:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">

Here's a good resource on the subject:

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-family-prop

(I'm a web developer, by the way)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this seems very uninformed. What fonts are specified in the CSS has nothing to do with what fonts are installed on the server (what a nightmare that would be, having to rely on server font configuration as a developer). Like HTML, CSS simply tells the browser what to look for and display.

'The html sent to your browser doesn't give a crap what fonts are on you machine.'

This is, in essence, true. What does give a crap about what fonts are on my machine, however, is my browser, which interprets the HTML and CSS and has the ultimate say on what is shown to me. What the browser does not care about, though, is what fonts are installed on the server.

If we take this CSS snippet for example:

'font-family: SmilyMcFont, "Funny Font", Verdana, sans-serif'

If that is all I specify then that will indeed tell the browser to look for the font 'SmilyMcFont' first, and the first place it looks (well, more or less) is indeed on the user-agent machine. If it doesn't find it the browser then moves down the list until it finds a font or reaches 'sans-serif', which tells the browser to use the default sans-serif font for that system.

A more likely scenario today, however, is that I have uploaded the fonts I want to use as part of the website source, and then pointed my CSS to it (using the CSS3 @font-face). Another scenario might be that I've imported it from a third party service like Google Fonts or Adobe TypeKit. That might look something like this and is usually specified within the website <head> section:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">

Here's a good resource on the subject:

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-family-prop

(I'm a web developer, by the way)

And I'm a Software Engineer whose been working on computers since 1977. Both, mainframes and PC's along with what people today call servers.

Don't have Verdana or any of the other fonts on my PC, so where does it come from, if not the server when the PHP is interpreted to html? Because it sure is Verdana and not Century School Book, which is the first font on my machine.

 

[nikyc]

And I'm a Software Engineer whose been working on computers since 1977. Both, mainframes and PC's along with what people today call servers.

Don't have Verdana or any of the other fonts on my PC, so where does it come from, if not the server when the PHP is interpreted to html? Because it sure is Verdana and not Century School Book, which is the first font on my machine.

Don't know what to tell you other than this is how it works. Verdana was released by Microsoft and comes with every version of windows, so if you're using a windows box that's probably where you got it from. It's such a common font that it's rare that it's not installed on most modern OS's, even Linux.

Here's another decent enough source: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

I'll go ahead and copy the introduction.

"If you are new to web design, maybe you are thinking: "Why I have to limit to that small set of fonts? I have a large collection of nice fonts in my computer". Well, as seasoned web designers already know, browsers can use only the fonts installed in each computer, so it means that every visitor of your web page needs to have all the fonts you want to use installed in his/her computer."

But yeah, this is sort of off-topic.

Edit: And oh yeah, PHP doesn't handle fonts, at all. Well, unless you code in a very odd way. You might echo out a <link> tag referring to the font, but that's about it.

Edit2: Suppose I could link this too: http://www.cssfontstack.com/ It's a good site for when choosing fonts and you don't want to go about the trouble of using GoogleFonts or such.