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Synopsis: this page displays samples of ampersands in the fonts listed in the Fonts ⮞ Metrics page; the purpose is to identify fonts which could be used for fancy ampersands. This page was adapted from the Fonts ⮞ True Weights page and therefore is very, very slow, and displays the samples in all distinct font weights which can be verified.
A variety of unicode ampersands are generated, namely .
NB: the correct fonts will not appear when the operating system performs font substitution; for example, Helvetica and Times will not appear in Windows because Windows substitutes Arial for Helvetica and Times New Roman for Times.
NB: characters in tiny sizes will not appear in the proper sizes if the browser has been configured to set a minimum font size.
NB: the font samples may appear very slowly, because much JavaScript must be executed, and many embedded fonts must be downloaded; Chrome-based browsers were
particularily slow when this was written, in August 2018.
Subsections include:
NB: unlike most Browser News pages, this page is starkly plain, with minimal styling, partly to illustrate the points more clearly, but mainly to make it easier to compare browsers: viewing this page with several browsers and/or configurations at the same time makes the browsers’ basic differences clearer.
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Samples are displayed of these generic, proposed generic, installed, and embedded fonts:
Sizes of samples are 4em, 2em, 1.5em, 1.2em, 1.00em, 0.89em, 0.75em, and 0.60em, which are 4em plus the recommended xx-large, x-large, large, medium, small, x-small, and xx-small sizes in the proposed CSS 4 standard. In each case, the samples appear in black regular faces and grey italic.
