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faux-pas, Detecting Faux Web Font Rendering

December 13, 2016

From deep in the archives (4 years late!), filed under “things I built but never posted on my web site”:

When a browser uses a web font but doesn’t have an italic or bold variation available, it will attempt to fake it! This is also known as font-synthesis. For some people (including me) this can be hard to detect visually.

faux-pas is a project to help detect this behavior so that you can fix it!

  • npm install fg-faux-pas and include the script in your build. Or use the Bookmarklet!
  • Demo (includes the Bookmarklet!) and Test Page
  • View on: GitHub or npm
  • Retweet

node-faux-pas is a project to run faux-pas on the command line:

  • npm install -g node-faux-pas
  • e.g. fauxpas https://www.zachleat.com/
  • View on GitHub or npm
  • Retweet

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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://fontawesome.com/Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 83 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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