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I'm getting sporadic reports of users seeing our website with the Comic Sans font. This is obviously highly undesirable.
We use the Lobster Google web font which I strongly suspect is the one being rendered as Comic Sans.
Our homepage is http://www.scirra.com, can anyone tell me why it's falling back to Comic Sans for some people?
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This is one of the "web safe" fonts that will be viewable across all web browsers. Comic Sans is a popular font but it is also popular for being mis-used or even just over-used for websites and design projects in general.
Google Fonts: Comic Neue Comic Neue is an original reinterpretation of the classic, Comic Sans. Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone, including the typographically savvy.
Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It is a non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in cartoon speech bubbles, as well as in other casual environments, like informal documents and children's materials.
It's because your font stack reads:
font-family: 'Lobster', cursive;
Comic Sans is a cursive family font. So if lobster fails to load from the google font api, comic sans is a valid fallback font.
Personally, I have nothing good to say about the viability of Google Font API, so I would recommend you use @font-face to achieve your desired affect.
edit: woah, I just took a look at your web page and realized what i was looking at. So, on a personal note I'd just like to say I've used the scirra free edition to help me learn some stuff with the Canvas and I think it's an awesome product, so if you're a member of the team I just wanted to say thanks.
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