I want to set a unicode range to Consolas, a monospace font installed in most browsers. Instead linking an external font file by src, I want to use the font file which is already in the browser. How should I edit the CSS below?
I have checked many sources from StackOverflow and other sites about applying Unicode range to #font-face, but could not find useful advice for this specific matter. Any help will be appreciated.
#font-face {
font-family: "Consolas";
src: browser???;
unicode-range: U+0061-0100;
}
Edit: I have tried using src: local('Consolas'); but it didn't seem to work, strangely.
You can use local(), an example:
#font-face {
font-family: 'CustomConsolas';
src: local('Consolas');
unicode-range: U+0061-0100;
}
#font-face {
font-family: iconFont;
src: local(iconFont), url('fonts/iconFont.ttf') format('opentype');
}
The font file is not corrupt and installs fine in OSX etc. letting me preview it. But it won't render anything when I try to use it on a web page or even if I select it in illustrator it just switches to another font if I touch any key.
The font is for 'regular' and I have tried other options, but it won't work. Have tried typing with caps on/off etc. Using numpad, nothing. Have re-installed it and made sure there are no duplicates. It also won't work in Windows. Not sure if I need to change my css somehow or the fault lays with the font.
Here's a link to the font for anyone wanting to try. It's a bunch of metro icons. http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/23494573/file.html
Not sure if this will help, but this is the CSS I use, and it works fine. The webfonts directory is in the same directory as the css file, and includes three file types: .eot .ttf .woff
#font-face {
font-family: 'AvenirLT-Book';
src: url('webfonts/25EE2B_0_0.eot');
src: url('webfonts/25EE2B_0_0.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('webfonts/25EE2B_0_0.woff') format('woff'), url('webfonts/25EE2B_0_0.ttf') format('truetype');
}
a typical class decleration:
.AvenirLT-Book {
font-family: AvenirLT-Book;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
perhaps you need to change the format to ('truetype') instead of ('opentype') ?
Im having some trouble with the #font-face selector, I have the following...
#font-face {
font-family: 'MuseoSans-700';
src: url('http://mysite.co.uk/clients/reload/Images/style_159306.eot');
src: url('http://mysite.co.uk/clients/reload/Images/style_159306.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('style_159306.woff') format('woff'),
url('style_159306.ttf') format('truetype');
}
Only my fonts arent being rendered and instead im being shown my fallback, arial.
If i paste the url to the font into my browser it asks me to download so i know the links correct, is there something im doing wrong in the above?
Im calling the font using...
h1 {
color:#272727;
font:108px 'MuseoSans-700',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
letter-spacing:-7px;
}
Thanks
Check out this article on bullet-proof #font-face syntax. http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/
You also didn't specify which browsers it's working or not working in so I assume it's not working in any of them.
.eot is for internet explorer.
Try .otf
So in practice you need to have both, something like
e.g.
#font-face {
font-family: 'MuseoSans-700';
src: url('http://mysite.co.uk/clients/reload/Images/style_159306.eot');
src: url('http://mysite.co.uk/clients/reload/Images/style_159306.otf');
}
A good tutorial is here: http://www.evotech.net/blog/2010/01/font-face-browser-support-tutorial/
Strelok's reference to Paul Irish's article is also very good.
i understand its a bit rude to ask a question from scratch however i have done my research and tried a few examples with no sucess.
im trying to display a font from my local servers.
ex. DigitaldreamNarrow.ttf
which is located in :
css/fonts/DigitaldreamNarrow.ttf
i have tried placing it in my css file in the following manner:
#font-face {
font-family: DigitaldreamNarrow;
src: url(‘css/fonts/DigitaldreamNarrow.ttf’);
}
.top {
font-family: DigitaldreamNarrow;
font-size: 0.2%;
}
however at this point im lost and i dont see any results in my display.
help?
Deploying fonts via CSS is generally unsupported. Take a look at Cufon.
#font-face {
font-family: 'ArvoRegular';
src: url('Arvo-Regular-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('Arvo-Regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('Arvo-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('Arvo-Regular-webfont.svg#webfontau9vOdrl') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
You're going to have different results from different browsers (not all browsers support/use 'eot' for example). Check out font squirrel, and download an #face kit. Very helpful resource. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface
This is more than likely the direction fonts will take, and Cufon will likely become "Gif Builder"...IMO.
#trey, write this
#font-face {
font-family: 'DigitaldreamNarrow';
src: url(‘../css/fonts/DigitaldreamNarrow.ttf’);
}
may there is a problem with your url please it.
May be you have to add inverted comma to the font .
As described above, I have issues with #font-face not displaying in IE9 although it displays fine in every other browser including IE8 and under. Additionally, when viewing locally on my computer, IE9 does display the font, just not when fully live.
The site is:
bigwavedesign.co.uk/gcc/gcc/
The code used is:
#font-face {
font-family: 'LeagueGothicRegular';
src: url('league_gothic_0-webfont.eot');
src: local('League Gothic Regular'), url('league_gothic_0-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('league_gothic_0-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('league_gothic_0-webfont.svg#webfonta36nFpyE') format('svg');font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;
}
Anyone any ideas why this might be occurring?
Cheers!
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EDIT
I have found the following site that displays the same font ok in IE9, anyine any ideas how he did that?
http://iamthomasbishop.com/
No answer, just confirmation: I have a similar kind of problem. Font works in all other IE versions except IE9, both using IETester and original browser. When changing Document Mode (F12 dev tools) font works. Not how I'd like it though.
Update: With some trickery I managed to get it working. Seems like IE9 is using the .woff version of the font (which I had excluded) over the .eot that I thought it would. I used the #font-face generator from fontsquirrel to get all the different font variations and included them in my project, using the smileyface-local. Did not have to alter my .htaccess file. Now works fine and looks the same in all IE versions:
#font-face {
font-family: "LucidaFax-bold";
src: url("_font/LucidaFax-bold.eot");
src: local("☺"),
url("_font/LucidaFax-bold.woff") format("woff"),
url("_font/LucidaFax-bold.ttf") format("truetype"),
url("_font/LucidaFax-bold.svg#LucidaFax-bold") format("svg");
}
h1 { font-family: "LucidaFax-bold", serif;}
(I even got mad fresh using Mark "Tarquin" Wilton-Jones' text-shadow hack, applying same look to IE versions as rest of the browser world. Old school? Looks great! Was it worth it? Well, learned a lot. ;)
I have just had the very same problem with Web Fonts hosted on an IIS7 site, as suggested by Grillz the issue was down to MIME Types.
I have elected to use "application/octet-stream" based upon the answers to the Mime type for WOFF question.
Open IIS and select the site that hosts the fonts (must be the same domain name for IE9 and Firefox)
Double click "Mime Types"
Click "Add..." in the top right hand corner.
In "File name extension:" enter ".woff"
In "MIME type:" enter "application/octet-stream"
Hope that saves someone 10 minutes in the future.
For us the trick was to just change the format on the .eot files we're serving up.
Works in IE6-9, Firefox 3-4, Chrome, Safari, Android, iPhone.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Museo';
src: url('/ui/museo300.eot?') format('eot'),
url('/ui/museo300.ttf') format('truetype')
}
Becomes:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Museo';
src: url('/ui/museo300.eot?') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/ui/museo300.ttf') format('truetype')
}
My solution is to declare two different fonts:
#font-face {
font-family: "Dereza bold";
src: local("Dereza bold"), url("../../assets/otf/dereza_bold.otf") format("opentype");
}
#font-face {
font-family: "IE Dereza bold";
src: url("../../assets/eot/dereza_bold.eot");
}
And then:
.divclass {
font-family: "Dereza bold", "IE Dereza bold";
}
Abalore +1
My solution:
#font-face {
font-family: "OfficinaSansBookSCC";
src: url('font/OfficinaSansBookSCC.eot');
src: url('font/OfficinaSansBookSCC.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url( 'font/OfficinaSansBookSCC.ttf' ) format("truetype");
}
working in IE 7-9, chrome, opera, firefox.
first line needed for IE 9, second for IE 7-8.
Well since you've edited your post the below text won't be the answer. Are you pointing to the correct directory? Any chance of this being a mime type issue from the server?
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This might be it:
It’s important to note that your site must render in documentMode 9 in order to take advantage of the new features included with IE9 (that includes all new features in IE9, not only the ones related to web fonts). If you haven’t heard of documentMode before, Microsoft has put together a guide which explains what it is and how you can use it on your site.
from http://blog.typekit.com/2010/09/03/typekit-adds-experimental-support-for-ie9/
In IE9 - F12 look at the debug screen see if there are any CSS3117 errors.
See also: IE9 blocks download of cross-origin web font
Font Squirrel also provides a wonderful generator tool to help you create a font kit that will include the required formats, already-written CSS, and even a demo page to see how it's all used, along with help with problems you may encounter.
It was a breeze to incorporate its output into my site and it did fix the problem perfectly.
You should check out this blog post Paul Irish has a few things to say about the problems you are coming across and he comes up with what he calls a 'bulletproof' #font-face statement.
http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/
http://www.fontsquirrel.com uses this for its sample CSS which worked OK for the project I was working on.
#font-face {
font-family: 'QuicksandBook';
src: url('/Quicksand_Book-webfont.eot');
src: url('/Quicksand_Book-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/Quicksand_Book-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('/Quicksand_Book-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/Quicksand_Book-webfont.svg#QuicksandBook') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
I had this problem. Turns out I was missing a comma in the font-family declaration.
I wanted to add yet another thing that could possibly go wrong in this scenario. IE9 has a rule that discards all #font-face declarations that can not be cached after the first load. IE9 will actually use the font correctly on the first display, but on subsequent refreshes, the #font-face will be disabled. I discovered this after closing my browser by chance, and then reopening it to find that my font was working mysteriously, only to stop working one refresh later.
To fix this, you simple need to make sure that the request serving your font has a Cache-Control response header of something other than no-cache. I would recommend setting it to max-age=3600. This will ensure your font is cached for an hour. IE9 will then be able to display your font consistently.