Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions relating to different typefaces and their use in various Mathematica outputs, including graphics, notebooks and exported output.
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Wolfram Desktop 12.1 fonts are inconsistent within various interfaces of the frontend?
I just installed the Wolfram Desktop 12.1 clean install on windows by first completely uninstalling all previous versions so previous settings don't impact the new installation.
The new front end for ...
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Font quality under 12.1 on Linux
I have an issue with MMA 12.1 under Linux, specifically, xubuntu 18.04.4, and even more specifically, font rendering.
A semi-random plot, in this case,
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Export Latin Modern Math Greek: spurious spacing on Windows
Bug introduced in 12.0.0 or earlier on Windows
[CASE:4549185]
To get simple LaTeX Greek in my figures, I am using U+1D6FC MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL ALPHA to ...
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How to change default font for all existing notebooks at once?
By default, Mathematica 9 and 10 use Gill Sans MT fonts for headings of title/subtitle/section/subsection/subsubsection. Unfortunately, Gill Sans MT fonts have no Cyrillic letters, so that all ...
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Using "Latin Modern Math"with MaTeX on Windows
I started using MaTeX and it is all wonderful expect for the fact I am unable to use the "Latin Modern Math" , "LM 12" to work for the tickmarks. I get decent results with "Times" but not quite ...
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Mathematica 10.4 crashes when using too many font sizes
While working on How to make the digits of π go around in a spiral like this? I encountered a problem that Mathematica would crash at regular intervals with an internal self-test error, either ...
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Font difference in mathematica 9 and 10 after export to illustrator
It seems WRI has changed the way fonts are dealt with in Mathematica 9 and 10.
The following command
Export["test.eps", "This is a nice formula"]
yields this
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Using fallback fonts
I'd like to specify a FontFamily that does a fallback if the specified font is not on my system. E.g. I'd like the base font to be ...
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When print or save as PDF the font size is too large
When I print or save as pdf the font size is too large
I have printed the whole notebook to pdf or saved it to pdf, but the font size was too large, and I have set the ...
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How to make Mathematica show parentheses using the AntykwaTorunska font correctly?
I am currently on a Windows 10 machine using Mathematica 11.0.1.0 and on which I installed the AntykwaTorunska fonts (light, bold, condensed, etc).
Here you can see a part of the screenshot of the ...
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Very poor subpixel antialiasing using rotated monitor
I use Mathematica 10 for Linux with my monitor rotated 90-degrees.
Fonts in all applications look very good (I have configured Gnome and Xft to do subpixel antialiasing in "vertical RGB" order). But ...
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Changing the default font size
Hey I have problems reading my mathematica notebooks due to the small fonts. I'd like to change their default values for the input and output. I already figured out that everything seems to be defined ...
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Ugly font rendering (ubuntu 12, overrides system settings)
Mathematica 9 on Ubuntu 12 renders fonts very poorly.
Text is readable, but it makes it very hard to concentrate on programming.
Since smoothing on Ubuntu on low DPI screens isn't very good either, ...
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Export image as pdf, which is PDF/A valid
Assume following plot in Mathematica (version 11.2):
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Select characters for "OperatorSubstitution"
The details section of the documentation for PrivateFontOptions states that:
With the default setting ...
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How to change Font size
Please tell me please how can I change the font size globally. I tried through Option Inspector-> FontOptions-> Font size. Global Preferences parameter changed, but the font in notepad is not
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Graphics3D font issue in Mathematica 12.1 (Linux )
I just upgraded to Mathematica 12.1 from 11.3, and text in 3D graphics is now very ugly (but text in 2D graphics looks fine); here's an example:
Adding ...
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How make the default fonts of v11 like in v10: Courier for .nb AND sans serif for .m/.wl editor
I would like to make the default font of .m/.wl editor in Mathematica 11 to be that of Mathematica 10 (a smaller narrower fixed width sans serif font). Simultaneously, I would like to make the ...
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Copy/Paste MMA code from PDF into Notebook garbles special characters
I have a PDF which contains Mathematica code and plain text. It was probably generated directly from one or more Notebooks. I am running MMA 13.1 on Ubuntu, and when I copy/paste any of the plain text ...
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BoundaryDiscretizeGraphics for exotic unicode glyphs
This code works
BoundaryDiscretizeGraphics[Text@"\[WolframLanguageLogoCircle]\[WolframLanguageLogo]", _Text]
But for more exotic characters, it produces ...
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Stylesheet Directives for DisplayFormular overwritten?
I'm trying to change the font of DisplayFormula, DisplayFormulaNumbered and InlineFormula in my stylesheet. So in the options inspector of the stylesheet under ...
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Straight font in formulas
I'm trying to make a legend to a ListPlot. There is the problem, several letters are displayed in itallic and some in the plain slant. How can I fix this?
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Missing Unicode support on Windows FrontEnd
Does Mathematica FrontEnd still not support all the Unicode characters in version 12? I am using version 12 on Windows 10 and can't get character ↳ (U+21b3). It fails to print using ...
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Helvetica font becomes vague (black becomes gray) in exported pdf figure
I'm trying to set the font of several labels in my data plot as Helvetica Neuve. When I was working in the notebook, it looks well, for example:
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How to get smooth fonts in SVG graphics generated through a WolframScript script?
Below are screenshots of the x-axis labels plots generated and exported in SVG format using exactly the same code, either "interactively" or "programmatically":
interactively
programmatically
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Different display of ticks in windows and linux
I made my code on a windows computer, mathematica 11.0.1. For the plots I used self defined ticks. Here all the ticks are shown. However, I did simulations on a linux computer (also mathemativa v11.0....
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Print@"~" prints a dash
Print@"~" prints a dash. Is this intended behavior? Do you think it is a bug? I'm running 10.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (June 29, 2014).
Edit: a screen grab ...
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How to disable OperatorSubstitution in a style sheet without losing syntax highlighting for local variables
I'm trying to define a custom style sheet that has "OperatorSubstitution" set to false in order to keep fonts consistent. However, whenever I disable this, I lose ...
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What's the name of the default font used in Mathematica 10?
I really like the default font in Mathematica 10. So I would like to use it for my other applications. I tried to search for the name of the font, only found that a lot of people is talking on how to ...
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Will custom fonts in my notebook be carried over?
In my notebook, I have Open Sans (a free font) as a text font and Consolas (a paid font) as a code font. Those fonts are coded into the stylesheet of my notebook. My question is: if I send someone a ...
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Setting OperatorSubstitution to false causes Plot's labels of sufficiently small size not to appear in the specified typeface. Is this a bug?
This problem is no longer there after I upgraded to Mathematica 10.0.2.
If I set OperatorSubstitution to False, the labels of <...
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Big FontSize produces empty result
Style[A, FontSize -> 540]
(* A with FontSize 540*)
Style[A, FontSize -> 541]
(* Nothing*)
I think FontSize 541 is not too big. Practically there may be a ...
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Mathematica not finding correct font for some font variants
I am experiencing a puzzling behaviour when trying to use the font Fontin in Mathematica 12.1.1.0.
If I attempt to use the regular variant of the font, Mathematica instead displays the small caps ...
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Controlling behavior of LegendMarkerSize
I notice a strange behavior for the LegendMarkerSize while trying to adjust its size.
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How to change Echo output font size including EchoLabel within an entire Notebook?
I am creating a notebook template. I have Input and Output font size set at 10 but the Echo font size is 12. How do I change Echo to font size of 10? I cannot find a setting for this in Option ...
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How to print greek letters in wrapped text
Here some code for creating wrapped text
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PDF export of a plot has corrupt fonts in editors on mac OS
As I have explained in this post, I want to edit a pdf plot exported from Mathematica in Inkscape or Illustrator on mac OS but the font is corrupt:
I'm using the plot option ...
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$FontFamilies returns empty list
On version 11.1.1 for Linux x86 I cannot get a list of available fonts.
FE`Evaluate[FEPrivate`GetPopupList["MenuListFonts"]]
also returns an empty list.
Menu > ...
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Is there a way to make the whole document black in Default stylesheet?
I want to change the text color of the whole document to black, because it makes it more readable after printing with a black and white printer. Is there a way to make all document black with one ...
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DisplayFormula font is hard to read in print
My equations that use DisplayFormula style are a bit hard to read when printed on paper. Some lines look very thin. For example, a negative signs are so thin it is easy to miss them. Is there a way to ...
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Shrinking size to fit the page while saving .nb as .tex file
While converting my .nb outcome to .tex file, I face a problem. The out lines in the code are too long. That is why, they are out of PDF page produced from ...
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How to control variant of digits for a given font?
Is it possible to control style of digits for a given font? In the following example 2nd, 3rd and 4th lines print old style digits. How to get linear digits for these fonts?
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How can I get proper Latin Modern Math (including Greek letters) within Mathematica?
I am trying to replicate the standard LaTeX fonts within Mathematica, and I am struggling to get it to work correctly, particularly with Greek letters.
More specifically, I have downloaded the Latin ...
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Mathematica 10.4.1 broken fonts when saving as PDF
I am using Mathematica 10.4.1 in Linux and have spotted the following uncomfortable behavior. When saving a notebook as a PDF file, some fonts are not properly displayed (see attached figure below, ...
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Inconsistent font rendering when using a remote kernel on a different OS
I have a Mathematica 10.0 on Linux and one on OSX. I'm using the OSX as a remote kernel.
During parallel computation, if I render some graphics, the fonts and axes are not rendered the same way ...
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How to stop font resize of input?
How do you stop Mathematica from resizing the input font when entering formulas with fractions and such? When I enter a formula with a few fractions the text becomes microscopic. For example:
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Exporting graphics to PDF results in destroyed fonts on Windows 8
Executing
plot = Plot[x^2, {x, 0, 100}, PlotLabel -> "Plot"];
SetDirectory[NotebookDirectory[]];
Export["plot.pdf", plot, "PDF"];
results in
Is this a bug? ...
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Continuation of fonts in Debian distributions
Dear Wolfram Mathematica users at Debian-based distributions, if you have the newest distribution, can you verify that the fonts work? An Internet user who claims to maintain the fonts for Debian ...
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Mathematica "forgetting" the Latin Modern Roman font is installed
I have installed Latin Modern Roman fonts (on Windows), and in the past I was always able to use them with FontFamily when making plots, etc. Recently, however, I ...