I was just wondering how does dafont determine the preview of the fonts being uploaded. I had submitted several fonts that were displayed in different ways, different from what I expected. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks

Interesting question (I wondered about that myself!) but if I were the one supposed to answer this, I'd need a couple more details, e.g. examples of what you expected and what you saw.

Do you mean on displaying the font name on the site?
I am happy on how the mods understand different kinds of font. Most of the time I am happy how
they display my fonts. Although recently, my fonts has ligatures on its name and my font Chapters was not displayed
the way I want it since it has the "Ch" ligature on it. But anyways I have no complain since Dafont has provided me
huge help on my career. Thank you!

It depends on different things.

If you submit an image and it shows the name of the font put in a specific way, we'll try to replicate that. But it won't always be the case. There are a few situations where we won't put it in form:

- You need to put alternates/ligatures in the Private Use Area so they have Unicode values and we can display them. @BrandedQuotes, that's why your "Ch" ligature wasn't displayed.

- If you provide alternate characters, there needs to be more than just the characters used for the preview. For example: if your font's name is "Computer", and the "C", "p", "t", "r" are the only alternates in your file, we won't display them. The reason is that we used to do that in the past, but some people found it deceptive because they couldn't use other alternates. So now we only display alternate characters when there are more that can be used.

- Sometimes authors forget to adjust the kerning with their alternates which means we can't display them properly.

- There are technical reasons too. For example if one of the alternates letters is really high or low compared to the other letters, the preview will appear much smaller than it should be.

- Another technical reason could be that the alternate characters have a rendering issue. That can happen for thinner letters for example. So if an alternate character makes the preview look more bad for a technical reason we won't display it.

Please keep in mind that everything is reviewed manually. We will also always put the preview in form the way we believe it looks best for the visitors. Of course mistakes can be made. So if you feel like there was a mistake in displaying the preview of your font you can of course feel free to reach out. Just make sure you have read this message before

Hi Sir @frd. Thank you for this explanation. I'm happy you guys interact with us here in the forum.
Will surely take note on everything.