Fortunately, Tableau is pretty intelligent and does it’s best to choose a Rendering the font and doesn’t have Titillium, so it replaces it with a defaultįont. In this case, even though theįont is on my desktop computer, it will not use my font. To use the fonts on Tableau Server to render. But, if we were to force the viz to render server-side (forĮxample, by adding a chart using a polygon mark type), then the viz will need This isīecause it was using client-side rendering and, therefore, it used the font on When I viewed it on Server, it looked great. Okay, that was a long explanation of rendering, but it’sįoundational to understanding how fonts are rendered in Tableau. Highlighting and your cursor will be a simple arrow. With server-side rendering, you will not see this Highlighted/outlined, then the viz has been rendered client-side. If you hover over a mark and the mark is lightly With client-side rendering, marks are more There are two simple methods for telling whether your viz is usingĬlient or server-side rendering. Thresholds, you ultimately never know what type of rendering will be used until While thereĪre settings and URL parameters that allow you to fiddle with the complexity
But otherwise, it will be determined by the complexity. Some features such as polygon mark types or page history will force server-side Server administrator has enabled client-side rendering (it’s enabled byĭefault), Tableau Server will choose between one of these types of rendering. Is more complex, it's faster to send a request to Tableau Server and takeĪdvantage of the server's greater computing power.” So, as long as the Tableau Is less complex, it's faster for a client device to render the view. Which is determined by the number of marks, rows, columns, and more. This is the only font with which Tableau currently does this.Īs detailed on Tableau’s Configure Client-Side Rendering help page, “the choice depends on the complexity of the view, Thus, if the Tableauįont doesn’t already exist on the computer, it will be made available in the browser's cache before a viz
Method, via CSS, that the browser can download the fonts. To address this, Tableau automatically provides a However, it still needs to be on the computers of end users who Installed with Desktop and Server and is always available on Tableau Online and Systems, it’s difficult to guarantee that everyone will have the font. And since there is no standard across all operating
Software packages, such as Microsoft Office, include additional fonts not part Those fonts can be removed and others added.
Different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc.) haveĭifferent built-in fonts. Great shape and can use that font without any worries.
So, if your font exists on all such systems, then you’re in