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When building a dashboard make sure not to use a lot of different font sizes, because it can mess up the looks and consistency. You can read about using custom fonts in Tableau here. If you know you’re designing for PC / Mac users only, here’s a broader list for you. I put together a list of popular web safe fonts, then deleted everything custom both on my Mac & PC and this is what I see: However, I just made a test and it doesn’t seem to be accurate. This is the official list of Tableau Public web safe fonts according to Tableau: Let’s have a look at a Safari example! If I use a custom monospace font (like Lucida Console), for the others viewing my dashboard in Safari, it will fall back to Courier, a custom serif (like Playfair Display) to Times, and a custom sans-serif (like Futura) to Helvetica. If you use a font installed on your computer, that a viewer doesn’t have installed, his view will fall back to his default browser font. Other fonts cannot be guaranteed to display as expected since browser rendering of fonts depends on fonts being installed on both the server and client devices. Tableau Public and Tableau Online support fonts officially licensed for their Linux servers. Every computer that has a browser installed has default fonts built in so that it can display the text on the web. A web safe font is a font that is considered to be a ‘safe bet’ to be installed on the vast majority of computers. Using fonts in Tableau can be a tricky thing because only Tableau web safe fonts will show up the same for everyone. Examples of popular display fonts: Bauhaus, Broadway, Stencil, Windsorįor business dashboards it’s best to use only monotype, serif, and sans serif options. ![]() They may take inspiration from other genres of lettering, such as hand painted signs, calligraphy or an aesthetic appropriate to their use, perhaps ornamented, exotic, abstracted or drawn in the style of a different writing system. ![]() A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use at large sizes for headings, rather than for extended passages of body text.Examples of popular script fonts: Brush Script, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Handwriting, Papyrus, Comic Sans.They are generally used for display or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet. Script typefaces are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting.Examples of popular sans-serif fonts: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Futura, Avenir, Myriad Pro.They are often used to convey simplicity and modernity or minimalism. Sans-serif fonts tend to have less stroke width variation than serif fonts. In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called “serifs” at the end of strokes.
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