How to make a font LESS ITALIC?

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Hi,

A recent fontkit (like many other fontkits) has made my fonts TOO ITALIC, much worse than the original without font kit... of course "the original" only works from my machine, I do need a font kit...

Is there any way to make the font LESS ITALIC? Less tiled, smaller angle etc.?
(Tried "oblique", but it's identical to "italic" in CSS)

:confused:
#font #italic #make
  • Profile picture of the author Edge360
    Unfortunately not, best thing to do here is just try find another similar font.
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  • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
    Too bad, I like this font so much... if only it would stay the same, but that font kit ruins it!
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  • Profile picture of the author David V
    Let me clarify a couple things.

    There is no such thing as "TOO ITALIC", maybe to your liking, but the fonts not doing anything wrong. If it's just too much for your liking, you chose the wrong font.

    If it looks good on your machine, but looks different on the site, your not using it correctly.

    If you go to the site that's feeding the font your using in the fontkit, it will look exactly like that.
    Normal, italic, bold, etc....
    IF it looks different on your site, there is a good chance your are getting "Faux" styles and weights.
    This is NOT the fonts fault, or the fontkits fault.

    The faux issue comes in when the fontkit declares the particular font and sets the bold version to "normal" (bold is normal for the bold font), and so on for italic.
    Now, if you use the italic tag or bold tag in your site, it will try to apply italic to a custom font that is italic and is set as "normal". It's going to look horrible.

    The best thing to do is use Style Linking so there will be no issues with font fallbacks.

    This is easily corrected and there are some great articles that will help clear this up. (if it's the issue)

    If for some reason the font you chose is actually displaying the same as it did on the fontkit site when you browsed it, then it was just a poor font selection for your site, not the fontkits fault.
    Every font is different.

    I have no idea if this is the problem since I don't know exactly how you used the font on your site, but "Faux" is a common problem for the unaware.

    These might clarify a lot regarding fonts including Google fonts.
    Smashing magazine article 1
    Smashing magazine article 2
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    • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
      Originally Posted by David V View Post

      Let me clarify a couple things.

      There is no such thing as "TOO ITALIC", maybe to your liking, but the fonts not doing anything wrong. If it's just too much for your liking, you chose the wrong font.

      If it looks good on your machine, but looks different on the site, your not using it correctly.

      If you go to the site that's feeding the font your using in the fontkit, it will look exactly like that.
      Normal, italic, bold, etc....
      IF it looks different on your site, there is a good chance your are getting "Faux" styles and weights.
      This is NOT the fonts fault, or the fontkits fault.

      The faux issue comes in when the fontkit declares the particular font and sets the bold version to "normal" (bold is normal for the bold font), and so on for italic.
      Now, if you use the italic tag or bold tag in your site, it will try to apply italic to a custom font that is italic and is set as "normal". It's going to look horrible.

      The best thing to do is use Style Linking so there will be no issues with font fallbacks.

      This is easily corrected and there are some great articles that will help clear this up. (if it's the issue)

      If for some reason the font you chose is actually displaying the same as it did on the fontkit site when you browsed it, then it was just a poor font selection for your site, not the fontkits fault.
      Every font is different.

      I have no idea if this is the problem since I don't know exactly how you used the font on your site, but "Faux" is a common problem for the unaware.

      These might clarify a lot regarding fonts including Google fonts.
      Smashing magazine article 1
      Smashing magazine article 2
      Of course there is "too italic", when the font kit tilts the font more than the standard font displayed on the site where I downloaded it from.

      Basically, after using FontSquirrel and later another font kit, the font got "too tilted"... yes, from my machine using the standard italic font looked a lot better: either in Word or in the .htm/.php pages by specifying the source or just running them from my machine...

      The distortion appeared after the font kit made it "compatible with all major browsers". It tilted it too much. The font itself looked great at the beginning.

      I used the "Libel Suit" font. The standard italic on the site I downloaded it from looked great. After downloading the font to my machine I set it the standard font of the H1 and looked great on the .htm/.php pages.

      Then (of course) I had to apply a font kit... that's when it tilted too much...

      So I am now forced to use the standard normal (straight vertical) variant.
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  • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
    If there was a way to simply transform the .TTF into .EOT, .WOFF, etc... without any modification... like convert it somehow...
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