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[Patti Feinberg]

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[font=Lucinda Sans Unicode]test[/font]
[font=comic sans MS]test[/font]
What am I doing wrong? These are fonts on my 'puter??

The fonts aren't 'right'...

[Midnite]

test
test

They display fine for me.

(And thank you for posting the codes so that they can be checked easily.  )

[Patti Feinberg]

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[font=Lucinda Sans]hello bonjour ola [/font]
not using code....what am I doing wrong??

Patti

Or, does lucinda sans have such a small difference, that my untrained eye can't see it??

Let's try another...

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[font=verdana ref]We had Chinese for dinner[/font]
What again is the default font for this board?

Thanks,
Patti

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Or, does lucinda sans have such a small difference, that my untrained eye can't see it??

No, Lucinda Sans definitely looks different, and it is showing up in your post for me. 

What again is the default font for this board?

Different areas of the forum use different default fonts. But posts use Tahoma, arial, helvetica, and serif in that order. Most people probably have all four on their computers, but the way it works is that the browser looks for Tahoma first, and if it finds it, the browser uses that one. If Tahoma can't be found, then the browser looks for arial next, and so on down to serif.

[Midnite]

Let's try another...

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[font=verdana ref]We had Chinese for dinner[/font]

You do know that all the "insert code" tags do is make the tags show up in your post, right?  A tag is the brackets plus the code between them.  What you wrote above does not test the font.  For font codes to work, you have to lose the insert code tags.  This is a test of the verdana ref font:

We had Chinese for dinner

And this is the default font:

We had Chinese for dinner

[Connie]

I think I may have figured something out.  The spelling is L-u-c-i-d-a.  No 'n' in the word.  Maybe that's why it's not showing up.

This is regular board font.
This is Lucida sans.

[Josette]

Connie, I was originally going to say the same thing.  But, I clicked on "quote" in Midnite's reply to see what her code said, and hers was also written Lucinda! 

[Connie]

Josette,
Yeah - I noticed that.  This stuff is too confusing.  lol

Hmm....unless there is a font called Lucinda.....and I just don't have it on my computer.
I don't have "verdana ref" either.  Only verdana.


Just testing
I like this one.

Hey....I'm using THIS font from now on!

[Patti Feinberg]

i don't have lucida blackletter on mine...and...I can't see a difference in lucida sans v. reg. board font...

but thanks

Patti

[Midnite]

I can't see a difference in lucida sans v. reg. board font...

This is Comic Sans MS in size 4
This is Lucida Sans in size 4
This is the Verdana font in size 4
This is the default font in size 4

If you can't discern any difference from the default, you don't have the font.  Only you can know the names of the fonts installed on your computer, but if you're sure you have a particular font yet desire a more striking difference from the default, choose a different one.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Hmm....unless there is a font called Lucinda.....and I just don't have it on my computer.

There definitely is a Lucinda Sans because it's installed on my computer and, as I said, that font is showing up for me in Patti's Reply #2. The interesting thing is that it's almost identical to Lucida Sans. Many fonts do look similar to each other (that's why there are four different default fonts for posts), but they usually have completely different looking names. You'd think that with whichever one came second, Lucinda Sans or Lucida Sans, the person who created/named it would have come up with a different name so the two different fonts wouldn't get confused. But apparently not. 

Then again, maybe whoever created the second actually wanted them to be confused. It could have been the case that at one time either Lucinda Sans or Lucida Sans was a proprietary font (meaning you had to pay a fee for it) and someone created the other one and offered it for free.

[Josette]

Could it have just been a typo and somehow both versions exist and are really the same thing?