I am curious as to what font Scratch uses in its numerous textboxes (e.g. bios/wiwos, comments, project descs, even these forums!). Does anyone know? Is this typeface available in any common text editors?

Helvetica
(I think helvetica neue)

supernavo wrote:

Helvetica
(I think helvetica neue)

whoah how did you know that?!

dracodrak wrote:

supernavo wrote:

Helvetica
(I think helvetica neue)

whoah how did you know that?!

I looked in inspect to find the font, because I had been recreating the Scratch Projdct pGae in the Scratch vector editor.

It is whatever the default browser font is. For me it is Amazon Ember (bcuz im on a kindle e-reader). No joke, they're great for foruming (but can't interpret JS, so no 3.0 pages.)

It's Arial (at least for me, it might be different for other people). You can tell it's Arial not Helvetica because of the capital G, which doesn't have a thingy at the bottom right.

ProfessorThickhead wrote:

It is whatever the default browser font is.

This is not true, because I tried changing my default browser font and the Scratch font didn't change.

donotforgetmycode wrote:

It's Arial (at least for me, it might be different for other people). You can tell it's Arial not Helvetica because of the capital G, which doesn't have a thingy at the bottom right.

ProfessorThickhead wrote:

It is whatever the default browser font is.

This is not true, because I tried changing my default browser font and the Scratch font didn't change.

Arial must be a fallback. In the code it does state a bunch of fallbacks.

supernavo wrote:

Arial must be a fallback. In the code it does state a bunch of fallbacks.

as criticism, you could show that fallback code in a screenshot instead of just mentioning it i think

Zydrolic wrote:

supernavo wrote:

Arial must be a fallback. In the code it does state a bunch of fallbacks.

as criticism, you could show that fallback code in a screenshot instead of just mentioning it i think

I'm not at home right now and I don't remember the full list.

I'm back. It's Helvetica Neue, and if you don't have that, it's Helvetica. If you don't have Helvetica, it's Arial. If you don't have Arial, it's your browser's default sans serif font.

supernavo wrote:

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browser's default sans serif font.

UMMM… actually, most browser's default font is just serif (without the sans [omg undertale reference?!]) /hj

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

supernavo wrote:

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browser's default sans serif font.

UMMM… actually, most browser's default font is just serif (without the sans [omg undertale reference?!]) /hj

There are a few preset fonts, like serif, sans-serif, and monospace. What they are set to is configurable.

supernavo wrote:

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scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

supernavo wrote:

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browser's default sans serif font.

UMMM… actually, most browser's default font is just serif (without the sans [omg undertale reference?!]) /hj

There are a few preset fonts, like serif, sans-serif, and monospace. What they are set to is configurable.

Yeah i was just saying that if it's brand new and you've never changed the setting, it's likely serif or times new roman. I just checked, however, and there are many more default fonts, but times new roman or serif is likely the default.

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

supernavo wrote:

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scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

supernavo wrote:

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browser's default sans serif font.

UMMM… actually, most browser's default font is just serif (without the sans [omg undertale reference?!]) /hj

There are a few preset fonts, like serif, sans-serif, and monospace. What they are set to is configurable.

Yeah i was just saying that if it's brand new and you've never changed the setting, it's likely serif or times new roman. I just checked, however, and there are many more default fonts, but times new roman or serif is likely the default.
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There's a default font, then default fonts per preset. The default sans serif font is separate from the default font.

wow, I really started something! this is quite interesting.

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The typeface that it uses is Helvetica but the server doesn't send the Helvetica font file to users so for most people it displays as Arial.

nathanaelchoi wrote:

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