Font substitution

Font substitution is the process of using one font in place of another when the intended font either is not available or does not contain glyphs for the required characters.

Font substitution can be aided by:

When font substitution is being used to find a replacement for an unavailable character, it can lead to inconsistent visual appearance as part of a word or sentence is displayed in one font and another part is displayed in the substituted font. A method to work around this problem is to display the entire word or paragraph in the substituted font. Nevertheless, font substitution may be critical to scripts not well supported by a large font inventory having the required Unicode range.