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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:28:05+00:00

So, I know that this isn’t something that is normally a good idea for

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So, I know that this isn’t something that is normally a good idea for a website, but I have a special purpose/intent for such a use:

I have a multilingual dictionary that I’m working with online, where I need one of the languages to be in a specific font, from a file that I specify locally. However, I want this language to be rendered ONLY in this font, as if it is rendered using any other font, it will render incorrectly. That’s all fine and dandy, and I can load the file in CSS and whatnot.

But I want to make it so that if it can’t load that file, either for one reason or another, or something goes wrong, it can’t go to another font. Basically, render this text using this font, and if you can’t do that, don’t just try and render it with Arial or whatever is the default — show me blocks, show me a stark something.

I’ve spent a bit looking around, but am not sure what in CSS I would be using for this. Suggestions/help? Thanks 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t do this. Text is text and text has to have a font that it is to be rendered in. If you really want, there’s probably some weird JavaScript function that can detect the actual font being used for the text and if it doesn’t match the one you want, then you can hide it or something. But in the end, your only option is to have the text displayed in some obscure font, or completely hide the text. If the text is visible, it has to be rendered using some font.

    You could also theoretically create your own font where all the characters are just blank, but that seems highly illogical and such a waste of resources to make people download a font just so it can display meaningless emptiness.

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