I am trying to use a font for a website. The typeface file is being loaded in correctly (I can see the file in my network tab), however it is not displaying correctly. I have used font-face to import the fonts, with the following styling rules below,
#font-face{
font-family: 'BwGradual-Thin';
src: url('../fonts/BwGradual-Thin.otf') format('opentype'),
url('../fonts/BwGradual-Thin.woff'),
url('../fonts/BwGradual-Thin.eot');
}
#font-face{
font-family: 'BwGradual-Regular';
src: url('../fonts/BwGradual-Regular.otf') format('opentype'),
url('../fonts/BwGradual-Regular.woff'),
url('../fonts/BwGradual-Regular.eot');
}
I have attached 2 screenshots below, the first of the network tab of with the correctly loaded typeface file, which shows how all characters should be displayed on with the font. The second screen shot is how the font displays on the website. Only the 't' character has is displaying correctly.
Dev Tools Network Tab
Heading Screenshot
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I am still unsure as to why the method above does not work, however I have got the font to display correctly. My solutions was;
Replace .otf files with .ttf (Converted using CloudConvert)
In font face, declare all fonts as the same family, .i.e. font-family: 'BwGradual' and then declare the font weight of each type. i.e. 100,200,400,etc
Set -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased. (This was not workign with .otf file types.)
Very specific question so, not sure if useful for later uses, but hope it helps.
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I am trying to use a custom font, which is not available via Google Fonts. I unzipped the font and put it into src/assets/fonts of my React project.
In my index.css I am loading the font like:
#font-face {
font-family: 'LemonMilk';
src: local('LemonMilk'), url(./assets/fonts/LemonMilk.otf) format('otf');
}
I tested the app both on the localhost and hosted it on the web for testing and it is working fine, since the font is installed locally on my machine, but if I open the app on a different machine it is not working. I also deleted the font from my machine and the fallback font started to show since then. What am I missing ? Thank you
It's looking like Your browser has a problem with understanding the font file. Try to make the webfont package from the font file. There is lot of tools to approach it:
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
Webfont package will contain the font in all major supported formats and will generate the css #font directive for You.
DISCLAIMER: Ensure that You have the rights to use the font.
well i suggest creating a different css file for your fonts then import it to your main css also this site generate font-face for your font with css file!
The correct font name is Lemon/Milk and you'll need to convert it to other format like WOFF WOFF2 as well.
Please Follow this:
Go the this Website free online font generator
Upload your font and check TTF, EOT, WOFF, WOFF2 (See browser support)
Click Convert > Download
Upload the newly converted fonts to your server
Finally your CSS should look like similar to this.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Lemon/Milk';
src: url('LemonMilkbold.eot');
src: url('LemonMilkbold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('LemonMilkbold.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('LemonMilkbold.woff') format('woff'),
url('LemonMilkbold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}
Please Note that you'll need to convert any other font weight too. and don't forget to add the correct path
First, I want to mention that the icon fonts are not freely available ones. We actually purchased them.
I have a SCSS file that is making references to some icon fonts. I get most of it but not sure what the seemingly hexadecimal values mean.
$icomoon-font-path: "../fonts" !default;
$stream-check-1: "\e62f";
$stream-check-circle-1: "\e634";
I then seem to have CSS classes that reference these values:
#font-face {
font-family: 'myicon';
src: url('#{$icomoon-font-path}/streamline.eot?l1dykt');
src: url('#{$icomoon-font-path}/streamline.eot?l1dykt#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('#{$icomoon-font-path}/streamline.ttf?l1dykt') format('truetype'),
url('#{$icomoon-font-path}/streamline.woff?l1dykt') format('woff'),
url('#{$icomoon-font-path}/streamline.svg?l1dykt#streamline') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
.myicon-check-1 {
&:before {
content: $stream-check-1;
}
}
I think I get most of it. My question is where do I get those hexadecimal values e.g. e62f?
UPDATE:
I've located some json files that are zipped up in file that mentions icomoon. Would these json files be of any help in this case? They look like this:
"\e62f" is CSS syntax for what would be in HTML: a character with hexadecimal code e62f. You can see the code-to-glyph mapping by inspecting your font file (the way to do this will differ based on what OS you are using).
I think I found the right solution here. It's an online font viewer and when I click on the font, it shows the assigned value.
Just drag and drop the font file and
it shows you the fonts and their values.
http://jsfiddle.net/iegik/r4ckgdc0/
Those are utf-8 icons. You can check them here.
For further lookup, check this.
That e62fis actually referring to the utf-8 encoding of characters. The HTML takes that "code" and turns it into a letter depending on what encoding you have. Most American websites I know of are just the utf-8
In your case, your webfont has replaced some of the normal values in order to use their own version of it. However, you might not be able to find the exact list of what other codes there are in this font as it's an Icomoon font (it appears to be) - which allows people to make their own webfont.
EDIT:
So if you have the font downloaded and have a mac - open up your Font Book Application. From there, find your font and look at all the characters. Choose the character you are looking for and copy it.
Go to a tool like this website: http://r12a.github.io/apps/conversion/
And paste your character into the green convert area.
The value that you are looking for will be in the css box! (Of course it will show up as a box on this site, but as soon as you use that code on a site where you have the font downloaded - you'll see it match what you saw in Font Book)
I was able to reproduce this with my own custom font - so I was able to make it work. This was a great question and helped me find a tool that I'm definitely going to book mark! Cheers!
now, i want to use Monotype Corsiva. i add the font in my theme ,then in css file using font-family:Monotype Corsiva ,but some one tips me: font used for site title and headings is not working if it's not installed on users system. You should either remove font file from theme directory or include it in css file in apropriate way.
how to include it in css file in apropriate way? thank you
You need to use #font-face with your font in either .ttf or .eot
Below is an example
#font-face {
font-family: 'RieslingRegular';
src: url('fonts/riesling.eot');
src: local('Riesling Regular'), local('Riesling'), url('fonts/riesling.ttf') format('truetype');
}
h1 {
font-family: 'RieslingRegular', Arial, sans-serif;
}
For more details, look here http://bavotasan.com/2010/embedding-fonts-web-site-css-font-face/
Monotype Corsiva is a copyrighted font. Check out http://www.fonts.com for conditions and instructions for use. They have a policy that allows a limited number of page views (25,000) for free. The instructions and procedures might be a bit confusing, but in the end you will have a script element generated by them to add to your pages, and then you will just use the font under the name they give you (it seems to be Corsiva W01).
Alternative, try and find a suitably similar free font from Google Web Fonts, for example.
I've included a custom font on my website (Segoe UI), however the font file are around 1mb, which takes a few seconds to load the first time.
I'm on a Mac, and the font is not shipped with OSX. However, as far as my knowledge goes, it's included with Windows.
How can I make CSS only load the font if it's not already existing on the client?
Using local('Segoe UI') worked out. Seems like it prioritizes the sources from first to last.
Here's the working code
#font-face {
font-family: Segoe;
src: local('Segoe UI'), url('fonts/segoeui.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/segoeui.woff') format('woff');
}
I am using the following CSS to define a custom font on a webpage:
#font-face
{
font-family:zapfino;
src:url("zapfino.ttf");
}
Next, I am defining an id that uses it:
#custom_font
{
font-family:zapfino;
font-size:18px;
}
I've tested the page on Safari and Chrome and it works fine. However, in firefox the font is not showing up, it is reverting to a default. Sorry if this is a repost but I have searched on StackOverflow and cannot find the answer! Does anyone know why this is happening? see it here: www.moosecodes.com (its still under construction! please pardon the mess!)
Each browser only reads one file type for webfonts. Unfortunately, they are all different file formats. In order for the font to display correctly in all browsers, you will need 4 different types of font file- TTF, WOFF, SVG & EOT. Your code will look something like this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Zapfino';
src: url('Zapfino.eot');
src: url('Zapfino.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('Zapfino.woff') format('woff'),
url('Zapfino.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('Zapfino.svg#SansumiRegular') format('svg');
}
That code is based of the stylesheet included with FontSquirell fonts.
FontSquirell has a converter, but you do need to check your license. Zapfino is a commercial font owned by Adobe(?) and as far as I know using their fonts with #font-face is a violation of the fonts EULAs.
TypeKit offers commercial fonts for use with #font-face for a fee that complies with the foundries EULAs.
jlego is right - you should check out the FontSquirrel site - they have an excellent tool for building your kit and converting your files for you, AND you must always be sure that the font is legal to use on your site.
However Firefox and Chrome should both support TTF, which is the format you are using.
In researching your problem on your site, what I've found is that the font is not rendering properly in any browser I check in. What I've found is while the stylesheet is referencing the right file location, but the font file appears to be corrupted. I would suggest getting a new font file new replace the one you are using.
I had the same problem.... the answer by jlego was usefull to me.
My font was recognized in Chrome and IE.
In FF my TTF wasn't recognized untill I added the format('truetype') in my css file.