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FFFFALLBACK
A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.
It’s a brave new world. Web fonts are here, sparking an exciting new era in web design. Ffffallback makes it easy to find the perfect fallback fonts, so that your designs degrade gracefully.
So, in the spirit of bulletproof web design, we give you…
ffffallback the bookmarklet!Okay, so how do I use this thing?*
- Well… you don’t. We noticed you are using Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this tool doesn’t work in IE at this time.
- If you have Firefox or Chrome installed, please visit this page in either of those browsers and follow the instructions.
- If you don’t have either of those browsers installed, we strongly encourage you to download Chrome or Firefox now!
- Drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar.
- Go to the page you want to test and click the bookmarklet.
- The bookmarklet will scan the CSS of the page in order to identify existing web fonts. Then, using magical unicorns and javascript rainbows, FFFFALLBACKclones the page and provides a tool where you can test and analyze different fallback font choices.
- You can also toggle open an input in order to change font-size, line-height, color, etc. Remember to use !important, as it’s…well, you know, important.
- Bulletproof your font-stacks and rejoice!
* Small caveat: this bookmarklet only works on webkit browsers (Chrome & Safari) or Firefox. We might get it working for IE and Opera if time permits. But I wouldn’t hold your breath.
For more background on how this came to be and why it’s important, read Type study: Choosing fallback fonts.
Questions, comments & feedback · Fork it on Github Handcrafted by @jbrewer and @shinypb, with love, in San Francisco.
Extra big high-fives to the kind souls whose encouragement brought this to life: Trent Walton, Tim Brown, Kyle Sollenberger, Yaron Schoen and Mandy Brown.
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Yes. To change the Dropbox account your computer is linked to, you will have to unlink your computer first.
Unlinking your computer from your Dropbox account means Dropbox will no longer sync files from that computer to the website and other linked computers. Your files will remain in the Dropbox folder of the unlinked computer afterwards.
To unlink your computer from your account:
That’s it! Next time you start Dropbox, it will ask you if you want to link your computer to an account again. If you are linking your computer to a different account, you may want to move your Dropbox folder somewhere else first. Otherwise, Dropbox will ask if you want to merge any existing files with the new account.
If the Unlink this computer… button in the preferences window is not working properly, or you just like to do things the hard way, you can unlink Dropbox from an account as follows:
%APPDATA% and hit EnterIf you have trouble deleting any files or folders, you might have permissions set incorrectly. This is also a reason why Dropbox’s Unlink this computer… button may not work.