So it seems that Construct 2 uses fonts the same way web pages do (I think anyway) and if you don't have the font being used in the game on your web browser, it switches to a default font.
Is there a way to embed fonts into the game to prevent this?
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Web fonts: https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/236/using-web-fonts-in-the-text-object