Not all computers have the same fonts available and not all browsers support all fonts, so it's a good idea to take this into consideration when building a feedback report. If a template uses a font that your respondent's computer or browser doesn't support, it will substitute the font automatically to produce the PDF.
To prevent any unwanted fonts from displaying, you have two choices.
- Embed a font into your pdf so anyone can view it.
- Use a websafe font.
Embed a font
You can upload a font to Brilliant Assessments and embed it in your feedback report.
- Head to Site Settings> Fonts and click 'Upload Font'.
- Name the font, then upload the file.
- You can get free font files online such as google fonts.
- Can be a single font file or a zipped font pack. Accepted types (.zip .ttf .otf .ttc .pfb .pfm)
- Head to assessment settings> Options tab and tick 'Embed Fonts in PDF'
- The Assessment fonts section will appear. Select the font you want to embed from the dropdown list and save.
Use websafe fonts
Websafe fonts we recommend:
- Arial (sans-serif) ** in our experience, this is the safest font!**
- Verdana (sans-serif)
- Helvetica (sans-serif)
- Tahoma (sans-serif)
- Trebuchet MS (sans-serif)
- Times New Roman (serif)
- Georgia (serif)
- Garamond (serif)
- Courier New (monospace)
- Brush Script MT (cursive)
All fonts supported on the Brilliant assessments server:
- Arial
- Calibri
- Cambria
- Cambria Math
- Candara
- Century Gothic
- Comic Sans MS
- Consolas
- Constantia
- Courier
- Courier New
- Dotum
- DotumChe
- Ebrima
- Fixedsys
- Franklin Gothic
- Gabriola
- Gadugi
- Georgia
- Gulim
- GulimChe
- Impact
- Javanese Text
- Leelawadee UI
- Lucida Console
- Lucida Sans
- Malgun Gothic
- Microsoft Himalaya
- Microsoft JhengHei
- Microsoft JhengHei UI
- Microsoft New Tai Lue
- Microsoft PhagsPa
- Microsoft Sans Serif
- Microsoft Tai Le
- Microsoft YaHei
- Microsoft YaHei UI
- Microsoft Yi Baiti
- MingLiU
- MingLiU_HKSCS
- MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB
- MingLiU-ExtB
- Modern
- Mongolian Baiti
- Montserrat
- MS Gothic
- MS Mincho
- MS PGothic
- MS Sans Serif
- MS Serif
- MS UI Gothic
- MV Boli
- Myanmar Text
- Nirmala UI
- NSimSun
- Open Sans
- Palatino Linotype
- PMingLiU
- PMingLiU-ExtB
- Roboto
- Roman
- Script
- Segoe MDL2 Assets
- Segoe Print
- Segoe Script
- Segoe UI
- Segoe UI Emoji
- Segoe UI Historic
- Segoe UI Symbol
- SimSun
- SimSun-ExtB
- Sitka Banner
- Sitka Display
- Sitka Heading
- Sitka Small
- Sitka Subheading
- Sitka Text
- Small Fonts Regular
- Sylfaen
- Symbol
- System Bold
- Tahoma
- Terminal
- Times New Roman
- Trebuchet MS
- Verdana
- Webdings
- Wingdings
- Yu Gothic
- Yu Gothic UI
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