Font Families in Rise
By
Bill Dane
There are just 8 fonts available in Rise to choose from, unless you upload your own. The problem with this is with government agencies (FEMA, FAA, TSA, etc) with IT departments that are back in the stone age which only allow IE11 and have Font Downloads turned off - meaning any .woff fonts are blocked and IE11 substitutes some really awful fonts in their place.
The easy workaround for this is to add fallback fonts to the css rules for font families. Instead of just "font-family: Open Sans", you should also include additional standard fonts like "font-family: Open Sans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"
Please consider this for a release soon, otherwise these agencies are stuck with some truly awful interfaces.
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Thanks for pointing that need out, Bill. I'll share it with the team.
Hi Crystal,
Any update on this? It seems like a very simple enhancement from a development perspective, and a really important one from an accessibility and usability perspective.
Bill, is fixing this manually after publishing a course from Rise as simple as I think it is?
Not even remotely simple. Last time I looked it was very difficult. I didn't bother trying.
Hi, Ephraim. I'm sorry I don't have an update at this time! We still officially require font downloads to be enabled in the browser to see the correct characters.