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Experimenting with BBC code

Specifically, fonts.
1: Is this text written in the font used in Sotm card text?
2: Can you even read this?

What does this look like to other people? These are both non-standard fonts I got through downloads; RedStateBlueState BB and Enochian. They show up on my screen just fine, but I want to know whether that's only because they're fonts I have on my computer.

Actually, I might as well do one more experiment and see what happens if I use I non-standard font I DON'T have.


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OK, looks like the only fonts working for me are the ones I own.


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Yeah, that looks more like Times New Roman to me. :B

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The text looks different but I don't know fonts well enough to say which ones.   


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The second word in the post looks like Courier (or some other fixed-width font). Examples 1 and 2 (and the last few words of the post) are in Times New Roman. The rest is the standard font.

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This is what it looked like on my screen, for those curious. It looks like my suspicions were correct. Just for completion's sake, I checked the source of a webpage using a font I knew I didn't have to see how they did that, and it looks like you have to have the page load the font for the viewer. I think that's beyond the capabilities of comment code.

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My experience matches grysqrl.


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I have RedStateBlueState installed and I see it. The other falls back to serif.


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