I'm about to use some custom fonts for my website.
I know that currently there are few websites providing free webfonts like: Google WebFonts
But, the font I want isn't there. I want to know if there is any way to convert this font that I have to a webfont. (my font extension is TTF)
Also, I downloaded a few webfonts, their extension was also TTF. Are webfonts something different?
Different browsers handle webfonts differently. TTF will work in most browsers but not IE or on iPhones. I'd recommend checking out Font Squirrel as it has a lot of fonts on there including a #font-face generator that will help you set things up.
Web fonts are nothing special; they can be TrueType fonts, as long as the browser supports that format (most do). To use a TrueType font in your CSS, use
#font-face {
font-family: {given name};
src: url({path to font file}) format('truetype');
}
Then use
font-family: {given name};
in any rules you want to use the font for.
I've previously used Font Squirrel to generate the web font files from a ttf.
I would recommend trying Cufon as a fallback for browsers that don't support css #font-face
You can just use the ttf files in combination with #font-face. See http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webfonts/quick/ for more information.
This might be of use -
make sure the license for the font you are using allows it though.
Related
Although having read some articles about font-family, I still don't have a deep understanding how it works. So I'm hoping this question may help me better understand how font-family works.
I see some beautiful fonts on a website, the CSS of one of them is font-family:'Futura Today Bold',Arial,sans-serif. I try to copy it to my website, but it doesn't work. It seems the elements affected by this website are displaying default font. Here is a side question: how do I check what font an element is actually using? can I do it with javascript?
And the main question is, how do I use this 'Futura Today Bold' font on my website?
The problem with the font you intend to use is that it will not be installed on every user's device, which is why the fallback font (Arial) is specified in the website you checked.
You need to use web fonts if you wish to use a font that is not available on the user's device. Here's an example CSS code to do that:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Futura Today Bold';
src: url('http://path/to/futuratodaybold.woff') format('woff'), /* Chrome 6+, Firefox 3.6+, IE 9+, Safari 5.1+ */
url('http://path/to/futuratodaybold.ttf') format('truetype'); /* Chrome 4+, Firefox 3.5, Opera 10+, Safari 3—5 */
}
After including the above lines in your CSS code, the font can be applied by the CSS rule font-family:'Futura Today Bold' in your stylesheet.
Also note that as Christina pointed out in a comment, you should not use fonts that you do not have licensing rights to use.
Answering your other question as to how to find out which font is currently being applied, you can use your browser's developer tools to find that out. Here's a screenshot of how it can be done in Firefox.
Source.
Basically you need to have the font actually included in the bundle when the page loads to have access to it. You can easily do this once you have the file by using this html code in your <head>
<link href='font-name' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
or like this into your css
#import('font-name');
After you have done this all you have to do is set the font like you did before
Update
This is needed to define the font name once you have the ttf. Put this in CSS
#font-face {
font-family: 'Futura Today Bold';
src: url('font-name.ttf');
}
If you look at this file:
http://t.whstonecabinet.com/templates/rt_chimera/css-compiled/demo-dee78feaa65fff084c041f8862da3088.css
Then at the beginning you can see this line which is what create the font and if you look in your file tree under fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot then you can find the eot file:
#font-face {
font-family:'Roboto';
src:url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot');
src:url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular-webfont.svg#Roboto') format('svg');
}
There are some sets of fonts that are available in the website by default. If you want to use any other fonts then you must specify the same in your css. Normally font files are available in ttf or otf format.
For example if you want to use Futura Today Bold you should first download the font file from this page.
Next, you can specify in your css, the font path that you intend to use. Visit this link to know more
If you trying to use a font in your website and it doesn't show, in many cases you just doesn't have the font available.
So google and download it (if allowed). To use it in your online websites, you have to provide the font, if you're not sure, wether everybody has this font or not. Providing can be done via #font-face. But keep copyrights in mind.
When a browser renders a page, it uses the fonts from left to right. If the most-left is not available, it goes one step to the right and so on. You will often see something like sans or sans-serif at the right and, to provide a fallback, where the browser just pick a default font of that type.
To see which font is currently used, you can right click that part (in Firefox or Chrome) and inspect the element. Look for the font section. There you can see which font is used. If you see multiple fonts, the most left/top value should be applied.
You would need to actually have the font file in your project or you can download the file using #font-face in your css.
There are quite a few services that offer fonts for download online. Some are free to download (Google Fonts, others are paid (Typekit).
This link explains a bit of how it is with fonts on the web today.
I would like to use a custom font that I have in TTF format only, so I need to execute a script that would detect a support of #font-face with TTF format. What are my options?
TTF is supported by a lot of browsers. I wrote a check to test #font-face support by trying to render a small custom TTF font. If you disable the test for IE8 and below from this script (which uses an EOT font), you'll have the test you're looking for.
You can find the script here: https://github.com/RoelN/font-face-render-check
There are a ton of posts here that get into this subject in great detail.
Just to get you going if you only have a TTF file you can use Font Squirrel to convert the TTF file into other common web fonts.
These will help provide fallbacks for all of the different major browsers
The site will also help you with the generation and usage of the #font-face tag in CSS to embed the font correctly.
I'm using a custom font in a page I'm developing, Droid Sans, and at certain font sizes, the bottom is cut off, but only in Opera and webkit browsers.
It's easy to reproduce on Google's own webfonts page looking for Droid Sans and showing the whole alphabet at 18px: http://www.google.com/webfonts
It's especially clear for the lower case g.
Is there some css trick / hack I can use to increase the line height / show the whole character or am I really limited to only certain sizes of the font?
line-height and padding for example don't change anything and 20px font-size works fine and at the moment I am using Windows 7.
Edit: By the way, I am aware of a similar question here but as the accepted answer is changing the font size and the rest of the answers do not apply, it is of not much use to me.
Edit 2: An example that at least for now shows the problem (left hand column, under the slideshow, Il Cerca Viaggi).
Edit 3: The problem seems to be limited to Windows although I'm not sure which versions.
Edit 4: I have added a screenshot from Google Webfonts to show that the problem is not specific to the site I'm developing.
Although it is not the solution I am looking for, I have found a possible solution that might work for others:
In my original style-sheet I have specified the font as follows:
#font-face {
font-family: 'DroidSans';
src: url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.svg#DroidSans') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
This is causing webkit browsers to use the woff file / format.
Changing the order of the font specifications and removing the hash-tag after the svg specification (why is that there anyway?), causes webkit browsers to use the svg file / format:
#font-face {
font-family: 'DroidSans';
src: url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.svg') format('svg'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('droid-sans/DroidSans-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
This solves the problem, all characters are displayed correctly.
However, at least in Windows 7 64bit, the svg font is not as sharp as the woff font, it's kind of blurry so I will not be using this solution and am hoping for a better one.
To a similar question, one answer suggested that, while this appears to be a Windows font rendering issue specifically, hosting svg, eot and otf versions of a TrueType font (TTF) containing the font, which was not optimized for the web, had fixed the problem for its provider. If possible, get a clean, un-optimized version of the DroidSans font and export the web fonts yourself.
EDIT: Sorry all, I was out for the holiday and didn't have access to SO. Since I've been back, I've done a little research into exactly what's causing this problem on Windows machines...
It appears that the issue lies with the way the OpenType format is rendered on Windows machines. The issue with truncated descenders seems to transcend software type to affect multiple Windows programs attempting to render OpenType. Currently, you have the Embedded OpenType format (EOT) version of the font listed first in your CSS document under #font-face. Since Chrome and Opera both recognize this format, they'll disregard the subsequent source declarations and use EOT to display the font. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a quick fix that you could apply to an OpenType font itself to force the software rendering it to allow adequate line-spacing for the lowest of its descenders on Windows machines...
However, you can be choosy about which fonts you feed to your viewers' browsers. Personally, I would recommend placing the SVG version first in your CSS, and for browsers that don't recognize this format, suggest TrueType (TTF) second, then WOFF, then EOT for browsers that don't support any of the aforementioned (some older versions of IE appear to support OpenType exculsively). If the SVG rendering isn't much to your liking, try TrueType first instead.
Alternatively, although I'm no longer really that confident that it will help, you can download a TTF of DroidSans at FontSquirrel and use a software package like Typograf to export web fonts (EOT, WOFF, SVG). Try rearranging the sources in your CSS as outlined above first, though.
ANOTHER EDIT: My erroneous use of TIFF instead of TTF has been redacted to avoid confusion in the future. Apologies for the mix-up, guys...
I am not sure but try to add this for padding to work
display:block;
padding-bottom:20px;
margin-bottom:10px;
line-height:normal !important;
line-height:55%;
Set the line height to normal, it is a firefox bug and use the line height in %
I think this might do the trick
It all boils down to the font itself.
Look here
http://jsfiddle.net/DdMej/2/
The first row uses Drod Sans by Google fonts.
The second row uses the font you have on your site.
edit 1
Screenshot
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/811/screeniy.png/
I too was seeing my Google Font 'Lato' cut off at the bottom portion of the rendered text. In my case, I needed to serve the font files locally instead of using Google Fonts. To do this I:
Converted the font from .ttf to webfont files with Font2Web
Served the font files locally as static file assets from the localhost
Included fonts in my css with the bulletproof #font-face implementation
This eliminated my cut off rendered text issue.
My site here won't pick up 'proxima nova' otf in Chrome and can't understand why.. Here's the CSS:
#font-face {
font-family:'Proxima Nova';
src: url("/Fonts/ProximaNova-Regular.otf") format('opentype');
}
Any ideas much appreciated.
Just encountered the same problem, you don't need to specify format for otf fonts, just remove the last part of the src attribute:
#font-face {
font-family:'Proxima Nova';
src: url("/Fonts/ProximaNova-Regular.otf");
}
This comment helped me to sort this problem out:
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/2609#issuecomment-311231425
different browsers like different font file formats, for example IE will only acknowledge .eot and i think im right in saying that webkit browsers prefer .ttf files.
Use Squirrel's font face generator to create all the various font files you need, it will also give you an example of how to include them all properly in your css font face declarations
If you see 404 error for this font request in browser console, the problem is not in the browser but rather on the server side. The solution is to add mime type for .otf file extension in IIS on the web server. Since otf is a pretty new format, it's not available in the default list of mime types in IIS serevr; you have to explicitly add one.
Best for chrome is base64
src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
co generate this
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.