Forum Discussion
Macrons
Rise struggles with the use of macrons. I downloaded the best fonts for macrons from the net and then uploaded them as the custom font in Rise only to find the font doesn't changed. It looks messy.
Please help!
Hi Regan,
I’m sorry you’re having some trouble here.
Have you already tried downloading non-Latin characters using these steps?
Let me know and we’ll go from there.
I'm having this same problem. I followed all the instructions at the link Allison provided, even making sure I ticked all the font languages in Google Fonts, but the macrons are still displaying very untidily (see attachment).
Could you please us know how to get around this? Many thanks.
Hi there, Hannah. We're seeing some issues with certain languages, including Māori, even after following those steps. We're investigating this issue, and I'll update this discussion with any improvements.
I'm sorry I don't have a workaround to share, currently.
Many thanks, Crystal, for the update. I really appreciate it, and it's something we can let our stakeholders be aware of.
Kia ora all, I'm also interested in this and followed the steps suggested with similar results - just commenting here so i can keep track of updates. Cheers!
Hi again, I've found success in uploading the Vreyma font (https://www.fontzillion.com/fonts/casady-greene/vremya) to Rise - it's a pretty good match (see attached pic).
It seems a little buggy - as you type the letter 'K' appears when you press the space-bar, but that disappears as you type. But, cos I'm doing a whole course in te reo Māori, I'll take it as a fix for now!
Cheers
Thanks for sharing, Peter!
All good, though further fixes by Articulate would still be welcome - the 'K' bug is a pain
Kia ora, Peter - many thanks for this! The Vremya font, though a bit default-font looking, is as close as I've gotten to anything that matches the macrons, so that's great. The K bug remains a problem, as you've mentioned, but this is a satisfactory workaround for me for now. More advances on this from Articulate would definitely be welcome though!
Success!! Well resolved, many thanks Hannah (and your friend) - ngā mihinui, happy course building!
Pai mārika, that's terrific to hear, Peter!
Hi Everyone
Great discussion - I now find myself in this situation. We have a specific font set for our business, of which none are supported (Thanks Hannah!) - I am about to go to my marketing and IT Team to come up with a resolution that they will be happy with and will enable us to use the macron in our courses.
Kia ora Vicki, I had a similar discussion with our marketing team, who were fortunately very understanding of the need to use suitable and engaging-looking fonts in our online courses, even when these departed from the brand fonts. I found that using organisation images and brand colours throughout did help the course retain the look and feel of our organisation brand. All the best with your course! :)
Interesting post. I have come across the same issue for a course in Vietnamese.
The problem we have is that although we can upload custom WOFF fonts with all the characters needed, they only apply to Heading and body but not to all the player text.
Player text still uses Lato. We also tried uploading all latin characters to Lato WOFF font but they still look bad.
I guess there isn't a way to change player fonts, is there?
No, I found the same - the player fonts remain the same even if you change the Lato font to support Latin characters.
Well, that's not very good news :(
Thanks for your comment Hannah
