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Custom Romanian Fonts in Rise
Hello!
I tried to add some custom fonts in Rise as described here.
I used fonts with special Romanian characteristics such as: ș ț ă â Ș Ț Ă Â. Somehow the special fonts are not displayed well in Rise. As you can see from the attached picture, the same fonts in a text editor are displayed normal, but in Rise these special fonts don't change as the font type changes, nor are they displayed correctly.
Do you know any solution to this problem? Using them like this does not look professional - for a Romanian eye it would look like something is wrong or like a sign of neglect.
Just an update: Helvetica Neue font is the only web font I've found to work. It would be nice for the Articulate team to chime in on this because other supported fonts aren't displaying these diacritic characters. The fact that Helvetica Neue works seems to me like a bug.
Otherwise, alist of compatible fonts with diacritic characters, that work with Rise, would be extremely useful.
Thank you, Ros!
It would really be extremely useful to have fonts with diacritic characters that work in Rise.
Hi there, Ros and Anca. Thank you both for the collaboration and sharing your findings!
We have this updated article on getting non-latin characters, or diacritics, to appear as they should in Rise 360. Please let us know if you need more help after using this method!
I have used this article and none of the fonts on Google Fonts work with Articulate Rise. There is a list of default Rise fonts on that page which says you can download their counterpart on Google Fonts that should include these non-latin characters, or diacritics. When you download the fonts they still do not work in Rise. On Google Fonts you can test the font and you can they work for these non-latin characters, but they just don't work when you put them in Rise. They default to a serif font instead of the one specified.
If you scroll up, Anca has given an image of what is happening in her first reply to her post.
Hi Anca,
I saw you mentioned an image, but I didn't see anything attached here? Perhaps you could try sharing it again.
The labels of Rise don't support the custom fonts, and a few other community members have requested additional support of special characters in the labels, so I'll keep you posted on that too!
Thank you so much for your reply.
I inserted the image above. It was added as an attachment to the previous message, but I realized I can embedded in the message.
The examples were taken from a course description in Rise.
Hi Anca,
Thanks for that image.
Was this only in the course description section, or did the fonts appear normally when adding text to say a quiz or a labeled graphic?
Hi!
Everywhere in the course where you add text the fonts behave the same way.
For now I will try to find some fonts where the special characters don't stand out so much.
Sounds like a plan, Anca and please keep us posted if you need any other help!
Would love to know the font you ended up using Anca. Doing Romanian language work also and the standard fonts are broken with any special character.
I still haven't found ones that I am happy about, but I use mostly Merriweather and Roboto.
As you can see, there still is a notable difference. I wish there was a solution because I loved Rise from the beginning and it is getting better and better.
Thank you Anca for your reply. That's so annoying that Rise won't allow for this. I've searched the internet for compatible fonts and none of them are working with Rise with the special "Latin" characters.
Articulate, surely your team has come across this before. Is this a bug in the system??
Any news about Romanian diacritics? The problem still persists in Rise,
I cannot find fonts that look profesional in Rise, for Romanian language special characters.
Any update from Rise developers?
Hello, Adriana. Diacritics aren't showing properly in the sidebar menu or in some of the button labels because those areas aren't using your custom fonts at this point.
If you're using a custom font that includes diacritics in the set, however, you should see your Romanian text appear correctly in places like the course title and text within the course content. We'll post here if we have updates to share about custom fonts being used in the sidebar and in labels.
Hi, Crystal. Thank you for your reply!
I have tried several font sets that includes romanian diacritics, none of them works properly in Rise. Can you give me an example of a custom font set that works properly in Rise, with Romanian diacritics? I would really appreciate it.
I attached a print screen from my course, as it is now. You can see a lot of ”ă” and ”ț” that are not displayed properly.
Hi Adriana, we don't have a recommend font to use for Romanian diacritics. I would defer to the community to recommend what font they found that displays the diacritics correctly and looks professional.
Hello, I noticed the same issue with Czech special characters. It's fine for me to find the correct font and upload it as custom font, however, I am now facing the problem Crystal mentioned: diacritics aren't showing properly in the sidebar menu, lessons names and headlines. Do you forsee any quick correction of this issue?
Hi Miroslava,
Rise 360 doesn't allow for diacritics in the sidebar menu, lessons names, and lesson headers right now. That's not something our team is working on currently, but we'll let you know if that changes!
