What's in a Name?

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Posted on Feb. 28, 2015, 4:19 p.m. by CanadianShinobi

So, I've been considering restyling my name lately. I have no idea if anyone else sees my sweet ass Japanese font that I use, but that doesn't bother me too much, since I like the look of it.

I just haven't been able to get a colour scheme down right. I was hoping someone here might have a suggestion. I tend to have my name reflect my current decks, so right now it's Jeskai in colour.

If anyone willing to help could provide a sample, or provide the code so that I can sample it myself I would be grateful.

Oh and if anyone knows how to do those fancy swirly things, I'd appreciate that too.

February 28, 2015 4:19 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #3

I don't see any fancy typefaces in your name.

You may want to use a typeface that's more commonly recognized by browsers/computers. w3schools has a list of the general font families that are web safe (i.e., that are universal) here. CSS Font Stack has a more detailed list with actual compatibility breakdowns here. That's where I got the typeface that I use for my name and in my primers.

February 28, 2015 4:31 p.m.

Well that makes me slightly sad.

February 28, 2015 4:36 p.m.

Aefinn says... #5

how it looks

Yeah. You might want to find different font.

Hellsing might know something about using non-regular fonts. Not sure.

February 28, 2015 5:14 p.m.

@ Luutamo what about the swirly things around your name?

February 28, 2015 5:16 p.m.

Aefinn says... #7

You can make that with border-radius. For example, my first letter has:

border-left: 1px double #ccffff; border-radius: 50%; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccffff;

February 28, 2015 5:22 p.m.

Femme_Fatale says... #8

There's a lot more to it than that. Border can be top and right, border can be dotted, dashed, doubled, embedded, squared, oval, and many more. I found most of it out by looking at the tutorial for scroll box borders.

February 28, 2015 7:05 p.m.

Aefinn says... #9

True that. And if used I think it would be preferable to do something little different with it. It kind of looses its meaning if everyone has it the same way :)

March 1, 2015 3:34 a.m.

Femme_Fatale says... #10

Also, firefox and chrome will see different things when you alter the border. I have dotted borders right now, but firefox doesn't see that.

March 1, 2015 3:53 a.m.

Aefinn says... #11

And it gets even more interesting if you're running an older version of almost any browser :) With old firefox mine looks more like electricity than swirls.

March 1, 2015 3:56 a.m.

Femme_Fatale says... #12

Interesting.

March 1, 2015 4:11 a.m.

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