Can't get a custom Font working - css

I'd need some help with custom fonts. For some reason I can't get them to work, I'm using a .css and I'm pretty sure I'm doing all as required. Here's my head link with .css :
<link rel=stylesheet type= "text/css" href= "main.css">
and my .css :
html, body {
padding-top: 2em;
text-align: left;
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Dudu_Calligraphy';
src: url(fonts/Dudu_Calligraphy.tff);
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 100;
}
p {
font-family: Dudu_Calligraphy
font-weight= 100;
}
both .html, .css, and the font are in one folder and i just can't apply them on the paragraphs

First, you misspelled a little, it should be font-weight: 100;, not font-weight= 100;.
You need multiformat fonts to use them in the web, because some browsers supports one type, some supports the another one.
Needed formats: TrueType, WOFF, EOT Compressed, SVG.
And your #font-face should look like this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'FONTNAME';
src: url('path/to/font/font.eot');
src: url('path/to/font/font.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
src: url('path/to/font/font.ttf') format('truetype'),
src: url('path/to/font/font.woff') format('woff'),
src: url('path/to/font/font.svg#FONTNAME') format('svg');
}
To generate different types of font, you can for example use this font generator: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
And if your fonts will not be rendered properly on all platforms, you can try this CSS rules:
* {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

Related

Different stylesheets links not working?

So I wanted a custom glyphicon and used icomoon to do so. Instead of importing the entire library to the server, I simply used a stylesheet import to make things easier.
Now the stylesheet on icomoon only allowed the style.css link to be open for 24 hours, so I simply took the contents of the style.css file and put it on a custom domain.
Old style.css:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/style.css">
New style.css
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://thecommentsection.co.uk/style.css">
This is the contents of the style.css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'icomoon';
src: url('https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/icomoon.eot?kxcvpn');
src: url('https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/icomoon.eot?kxcvpn#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/icomoon.ttf?kxcvpn') format('truetype'),
url('https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/icomoon.woff?kxcvpn') format('woff'),
url('https://i.icomoon.io/public/temp/8e91637825/UntitledProject/icomoon.svg?kxcvpn#icomoon') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
[class^="icon-"], [class*=" icon-"] {
/* use !important to prevent issues with browser extensions that change fonts */
font-family: 'icomoon' !important;
speak: none;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
line-height: 1;
/* Better Font Rendering =========== */
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
.icon-rubyit:before {
content: "\1f4a3";
}
The Issue
The only thing I changed on the stylesheet import is the href link, but for some reason changing the link from the old to new suddenly stops the glyphicon from working?
Any ideas?

The font I installed (#font-face) is not working across all browsers - only Chrome

I installed a font to the site but it will only show on Chrome (I checked on Firefox and Explorer). I dont know if I am missing something in the coding?
Font Face
#font-face {
font-family: 'octin_sports_freeregular';
src: url('octinsports-webfont.eot');
src: url('octinsports-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('octinsports-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('octinsports-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('octinsports-webfont.svg#octin_sports_freeregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Then in the HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://weareprodigy.co/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
And in the headings:
h1 {
font-size: 32px;
font-size: 2.25rem;
font-family: 'octin_sports_freeregular', Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
text-shadow: 2px 4px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
}
h2 {
font-size: 28px;
font-size: 1.875rem;
font-family: 'octin_sports_freeregular', Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
color: #8CC63E;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: .5px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: black;
}
Link: www.weareprodigy.co
Each browser uses a different way of loading in the font, some use the EOT file, some use the WOFF file.
You currently only have the EOT file uploaded to the server and chrome uses the EOT file but IE & Firefox will use one of the other two formats.
You will need to make sure that the files are uploaded in the correct place and that within your CSS, you are linking to the correct place.
EDIT
Just had a look through your CSS. Theres no need to have the additional style.css at root level because in the actual theme, the fonts are already been called in. My guess is that the fonts have been put at the root level and not within the theme folder.
EDIT 2
Change your themes style.css file (wp-content/themes/epik/style.css) to show this
#font-face {
font-family: 'octin_sports_freeregular';
src: url('../../../octinsports-webfont.eot');
src: url('../../../octinsports-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../../../octinsports-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../../../octinsports-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../../../octinsports-webfont.svg#octin_sports_freeregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Since the fonts are in the root, that should direct to the root file as the css is looking for the fonts in the epik theme folder atm.

Fonts in Html local file

I have a problem when I choose a font in a CSS file. The font doesn't appear correctly in local HTML code.
#main_menu ul li
{
border-left:1px solid #dad8d8;
font-family:"arabic transparent";
font-size:16px;
padding: 0px 20px;
color: #e2001a;
list-style: none;
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
}
The font in the HTML file isn't like in the Photoshop design.
You better use #font-face from CSS3. Example from W3School:
#font-face
{
font-family: myFirstFont;
src: url('Sansation_Light.ttf'),
url('Sansation_Light.eot'); /* IE9+ */
}
div
{
font-family:myFirstFont;
}
You have to embbed the font
Use the following website for font generation
www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
#font-face {
font-family: 'YourFont';
src: url('YourFont.eot');
src: url('YourFont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('YourFont.woff') format('woff'),
url('YourFont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('YourFont.svg#YourFont') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
You cannot just use any font on the web/in HTML. You have something called web-safe fonts and can add custom ones manual.
Check FontSquirrel for conversion techniques: http://www.fontsquirrel.com
If a font is on your local machine, it "can" work if the browser tries to look for it, but you can't rely on it as most other users that visit your website won't have it on theirs, making the font fallback to Arial or an alike default font.
Font-squirrel will give you these formats (name is an example);
arabic.eot
arabic.svg
arabic.ttf
arabic.woff
With all these included all major browsers should be able to read your custom font with the #font-face property:
#font-face {
font-family: 'arabic transparent';
src: url('arabic.eot');
src: url('arabic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('arabic.woff') format('woff'),
url('arabic.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('arabic.svg#arabic_transparent') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#main_menu ul li {
font-family: 'arabic transparent';
}

CSS: #font-face import not working

I don't understand how to get this to work, any help would be appreciated;
I'm going off of what I got from this website: http://alistapart.com/article/cssatten
from my style.css
#font-face {
font-family: "JSL";
src: url(http://ff.static.1001fonts.net/j/s/jsl-ancient.normal.ttf) format("truetype");
}
font {
color: #000000;
font-size: 120%;
font-family: "JSL";
}
Neither is the plus sign the issue (tested with my renamed fonts), nor do you have to import a separate css file at the top of your main css file.
However, you may need to have more versions of your font than just the true type. Have a look at Bulletproof #font-face Syntax.
You may use FontSquirrel’s generator to achieve this.
Here is an example of a #font-face embed in my application, which is pinned right at the top of my main css stylesheet.
#font-face {
font-family: 'JustVector';
src: url('../fonts/justvectorv2+webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/justvectorv2+webfont.eot?') format('eot'),
url('../fonts/justvectorv2+webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/justvectorv2+webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/justvectorv2+webfont.svg#webfontkw9J4lGf') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
no
#font-face
Try get inport it:
#import_your_new_cssfile.css
whre you put:
font-face {
font-family: "JSL";
src: url(http://www.fontyukle.net/en/DownLoad-JSL+Ancient.ttf) format("truetype");
}
font {
color: #000000;
font-size: 120%;
font-family: "JSL";
}
Is perhaps the "+" sign in the font URL a problem? You might want to URL encode it.
Edit - after hitting the font URL, it looks like you should try to download the ttf file, and refer to it locally, rather than from a remote source. It's prompting me for a Captcha in order to download the file, which is probably why it's not working.
You do need to download the file and refer to it locally,
The link supported there is a download link and requires a Captcha to be downloaded which means it is NOT a direct link to the TTF File.
Depending on the Font you may need to use:
#font-face {
font-family: 'someFont';
src: url('path/to/font/someFont.eot');
src: url('path/to/font/someFont.eot?#iefix'), format('embedded-opentype'),
url('path/to/font/someFont.woff'), format('woff'),
url('path/to/font/someFont.ttf'), format('truetype'),
url('path/to/font/someFont.svg'), format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
and in CSS:
BODY
{
font-family: 'someFont', Fallback, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
...
}
This worked for me when I had issues wityh embedding a custom font.

#font-face not working even after trying everything I could think of

I really need help with #font-face code.
IT doesn't seem to see my font file.
I tried changing the path to anything I could think of, made new folders, renamed existing ones, put the font file in my root etc.
I'm testing in Firefox and Chrome.
Here are the codes that I tried in my CSS:
src: url(http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(http://www.thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(www.thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(../wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(/thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(../thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(thefalltheme/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(/images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(../images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(images/Univers.ttf);
src: url(www.thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/Univers.ttf);
src: url(/Univers.ttf);
src: url(Univers.ttf);
src: url(../Univers.ttf);
Can you find out where I should put the font file or what to change in my CSS to get it to work?
(I also checked the similar questions here and elsewhere on the net and tried using this website to no avail.)
Thanks!
UPDATE:
bozdoz's suggestion doesn't work.
I used FontSquirrel to get the fonts.
This is the CSS:
#font-face {
font-family: 'lane';
src: url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.eot');
src: url('thttp://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.svg#LaneHumouresqueRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
h1{ font-size: 110px;
font-family: 'lane', georgia, serif;
color: #000000;
}
I used the name 'lane' just because bozdoz had it.
All of the fonts are here:
http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/
and these are their names:
univers-webfont.eot, univers-webfont.woof, univers-webfont.ttf, univers-webfont.svg
Are you using it correctly? Here is the format for #font-face. Notice the number of files. You can use Font Squirrel to create all of the necessary fonts for cross-browser compatibility. Also, it looks like you're using WordPress. I believe you have to use absolute paths (i.e. the first one in your list) in CSS on WordPress. Hope this helps.
<style>
#font-face {
font-family: 'lane';
src: url('type/lanehum-webfont.eot');
src: url('type/lanehum-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('type/lanehum-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('type/lanehum-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('type/lanehum-webfont.svg#LaneHumouresqueRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
.font { font-family:"lane", arial, serif; }
</style>
You want to do something like this:
#font-face { font-family: Delicious; src: url('Delicious-Roman.otf'); }
The font definition file must be relative to your css file. So if your css is at:
/Content/css/main.css
Then your font must be located in the same folder. If you specify
#font-face { font-family: Delicious; src: url('fonts/Delicious-Roman.otf'); }
Then your font definition would be at
/Content/css/fonts/Delicious-Roman.otf
You might want to verify that your server is not blocking your fonts from being downloaded. Try the URL and see if you get a 404 or 403 at the given url.
You should try fontSuirrel's generator, their scripts have been vastly tested and compliant with many browsers. Choose advanced settings when generating your fonts. Certain browsers may not have the ability to use ttf as a font so they provide you with eot woff and ttf
My suggestions from the comments as an answer:
Try with quotes:
url("Univers.ttf");
Check you have font-family or otherwise you cannot use your font in your code:
font-family: "MyFontName";
Your custom font family you would use in css like:
p { font-family: "MyFontName", Arial, sans-serif; }
First of all, thank you all for your great, great help!
There was no problem with the #font-face code.
The problem was with my overall CSS.
You see, my CSS was written like this:
/*
Info
*/
#media screen {
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
html { background: black url(images/bg.jpg); }
body { font: 14px/1.4 Georgia, serif; }
article, aside, figure, footer, header, nav, section { display: block; }
#font-face {
font-family: 'lane';
src: url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.eot');
src: url('thttp://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/wp-content/themes/thefalltheme/images/univers-webfont.svg#LaneHumouresqueRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
etc.
The problem was that #font-face wasn't seen because it was after #media screen!
After I put it in front of #media screen and after /* Info */ it worked flawlessly.
Also, seems like I can use absolute and relative paths when using Wordpress...
Once again, thank you all for all your help!

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