[Resolved] New typography manager – general questions

[Philip]

Good Morning,

I’m using the new 3.1.0 Typography Manager and had a few questions:

1. It appears that once you switch to “Dynamic Typography” in the General section you can’t go back to the legacy system — The option disappears. Is this normal behavior?

2. When using local fonts, is it possible to add a fallback font without using custom CSS?

3. In the legacy system, the Font Family defaults — other than Body — were preset to “Inherit.” In the new system, no Font Family is preset, but the default does indeed seem to be inherited from “Base.” Is this expected behavior?

4. Next to each typography element, there is an option to “Delete Typography Element.” Does this actually remove the HTML element from the typography list, or only reset the element’s settings? If the former, how would you get the element back?

Thanks.

[David]

Hi there,

1. Thats correct, moving forward the old typography system will only be available on old installs that haven’t chosen to use the new typography system.

2. In the Font family name you can write your font stack eg. font-name, fallback-font-name

3. Base is actually the Body font – so any element that does not have a font assigned to it will inherit the base font.

4. That will delete the style applied to the Element. The original element will still be available in the list.

[Philip]

1. Understood
2. Wow. That works. Cool.
3. Understood
4. Understood

One more:

Since I no longer need a filter to add a local font to the dropdown list, how does GP know if there are any local fonts, and where they’re located?

[David]

GP only ‘knows’ of a local font if you add it to the Font Manager.
The location of that font GP doesn’t need to know where it is, thats the job of the @font-face CSS you would add for your local font.

[Philip]

Oh, okay.

So if I select Open Sans, and toggle OFF Google Font, the browser will use my @font-face CSS. Correct?

[David]

Thats correct. You just need to ensure the Font family name in the Font Manager is identical to the @font-face font-family.

[Philip]

Clever. Thanks for the education David.

[David]

We’re going to be updating the docs in Local fonts asap. So thanks for the questions, its great to get user feedback like this.

Glad to be of help.

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