Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County

Font Test

This is a font demonstration linked to our Text Size page. Most of the text here will be in your default font.

"Default" means what the computer does if you don't tell it otherwise. To set your default font:

MSIE: Tools > Internet Options > Font

Firefox: Tools > Options > Content

Chrome: Wrench Icon > Options > Under the Hood > Web Content > Change fonts and language settings > Default fonts and website encodings

When you do, you have two fonts to set, fixed width and variable width.

Here four lines that show the difference between a fixed width font and a variable width font. Lower-case i and l are the narrowest letters. Upper-case M and W are the widest. You can see the narrow letters take up exactly as much space as the wide ones in the fixed-width font but much less space than the wide ones in the variable width font. There are 20 letters and 19 spaces in each line.

Fixed (Courier):
i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l
M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W

Variable (Arial):
i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l i l
M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W

Here are four more lines. We set the font in the first three. The fourth is your default font.

This is a test line in Arial, a clean, modern, narrow font.
This is a test line in Verdana, a clean, modern, wide font.
This is a test line in Times New Roman, a classic but dated font.
This is a test line in your default variable width font.

Again, ALL of the text here - except the test lines above - are in your default font. We threw that last line in so you'd have four that all started with the words "This is a test line".