I was wandering how can I link font-family in css to a font in your folder. Like PHP you can use your font in your folder.
Example Code:
CSS:
font-family: verdana;
This is what I mean:
font-family: foldername/font
Is there a code for that? or I have to use PHP to browse my own font?
#font-face {
font-family: "Kimberley";
src: url(http://www.princexml.com/fonts/larabie/kimberle.ttf) format("truetype");
}
Just found this one on "A List Apart", haven't checked myself but this webbie is one of the most respectful resources for designers online so i guess your best shot is to give it a try.
It is not possible do like:
font-family: foldername/font
Fonts are read by the browser from the client machine from a specific location, you can not change it that way.
Jordan,
This should help you:
Using #font-face
You are misunderstanding this. PHP can use server-side fonts to generate an image. The font itself is never shown to the client, just the rendered results.
To be able to use a non-standard font in the user's browser, you will have to package the font along with the site.
There are various techniques to do this, all with various degrees of browser support. Here's a good article on the various available techniques, their upsides and downsides. Also check out the duplicate link.
Note that only because you paid for a font, this does not mean necessarily that you are allowed to re-distribute it embedded in a web site! Always check your font license.
Related
This morning my webpage and whole website looked totally different.
Although I didn't even touched anything. I found other people on the Google product forum who complain about the same thing. But I want a solid solution.
I use a css file from where I import the font
#import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans);
This is used on every page.
Now it seems that Google changed the font this night into a, for me, horrible looking font.
Now I found another font, which I want to download and use on my server, so this kind of google jokes never effect me anymore.
But I can't if I can do this and how.
My question is: can I download a font store it on my server and use it in my CSS?
Sure, you just need to define the font in your CSS and where it is located
You can define a font with
#font-face { font-family: 'myfont';
src: url('path/to/yourfont.ttf') format('truetype'); }
and then use it like this (with a Fallback to a default font):
.classname {
font-family: 'myfont', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
I found a 'fast' solution for this
The 'thin' version was used here, but was not specified. Google changed the options and you need to specify with specific font version you want. In my case it was
#import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans:300);
My website looks 'normal' again :)
The Google blog forum discribes some other solution
Google blog
I want to have a consistent fonts display when user browse my web pages, I'm trying to use font squirrel to convert my fonts into multiple formats but it gives me error somehow...Stated that it is a licensed font.
But I've purchased the font previously, so how do I provide the license for my font in order to let me do the conversion?
depending on where you bought the font you might not have a license to use it on the web.
font web embedding usually requires a special license. (here's an example with different licensing options for Helvetica Neue).
If you want to use custom font on your page I would suggest having a font file with you page (in the same folder/directory). For example:
/folder
page.html
font.ttf
Then using css #font-face feature:
#font-face
{
font-family: font;
src: url(font.ttf);
}
and afterward apply it to any html element
body {
font-family: font;
}
Just trying to extend on Liviu's answer. Helvatica is not a web font. It comes with Mac OS X. So, unless the user has it installed, it won't show. If you are asking if you can embed it or not, the answer is yes, you can embed it. But that is NOT allowed.
If you must use it, go ahead define it as a font family, but also define a fall-back family. Just in case a user doesn't own a mac, they will see the other family font.
Lastly, if you wish to use a web font, maybe you could have a look at Google Web Fonts: https://www.google.com/fonts/ it has many options and it's fairly easy to use. You might even find a font that looks similar to Helvatica or any other fonts you have in mind.
Good Luck!
I'm going mad with an issue and I wonder if anyone can help. I'm currently using http://font-combinator.com to see what different style of fonts look like together. This website simply loads fonts in from Google Fonts and displays them onscreen.
Now I choose a font, think it looks ok, and head over to Google and download it. I then paste that font into my local font directory so I can see what it looks like locally, and add it's name in my css like so:
font: 100%/1.6 "Font name here";
color: #bbb;
font-weight: 400; (for example)
Problem is when I look at it in the same browser as I did the Font Combinator, it looks rougher and more jagged. No settings have been changed. The font on both sites is 16px. For reference I am using Windows XP with cleartype turned off (I don't like it).
Now if I link to Google Fonts directly through my website, then it displays the same as on the Font Combinator. I don't understand how installing the same font that Google uses produces a different result? Ideally I would like to host the font on my website myself, but can't see a way around this? Am I doing something wrong, or is there something I've missed? Thanks!
For reference I am using the following reset:
html,body,etc.... {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
}
Edit: #Fontface code that I've used, that does seem to look the same!
#font-face {
font-family: 'Molengo';
src: url('./fonts/Molengo-Regular.ttf')
format('truetype');
}
(just picked this font as an example)
I had same problem and it's a mess and hard to solve. The main problem is that the font you've downloaded is not actually the "same" that google webfonts provides.
The font family is the same, but Google can provide it in different formats. The font that you've installed on your system is probably a .ttf file, that's a truetype font and Windows can use it. But, if you look the css that Google serves you when you includes a font, it's something like this:
For this:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans
you get this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Open Sans';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: local('Open Sans'), local('OpenSans'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v8/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3T8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff');
}
As you can see, if there is no local matching, it requests the font BUT in woff format, it's the same font but in another font format. In fact, I've done this example using chrome, but the css that google provides choose the best font format depending on browser and SO that made the request.
That's the reason why you see same font family rendering so different, the local one is .ttf, the another could be woff, svg (I think for IE), and there is other posibilities. And same font on different formats looks different, sometimes too much different.
I think the best choice is to create that css by yourself, not asking it to Google, and remove the local part, but it's important to add the other formats, other way it will not work on all supported browser.
This is potentially a duplicate of this question but this was my answer to that:
Fonts render differently based on:
Screen/Monitor resolution
Browser
Operating System
Size of use and hinting
Without seeing your code the only things I can recommend are:
Making sure you are using decent reset css (something like this: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/).
Try adding font-weight: normal; to fonts to see if this makes a difference; sometimes browsers and frameworks try adding a fake bold to things.
Assuring you are using the actual versions of the fonts and not just applying CSS styles.
If all else fails then try bumping the font-size up/down a small amount and see if the font hints better at these sizes.
Some people also recommend not using the #import or direct link from google. Perhaps try downloading the file and using #font-face in your css.
Hope this helps!
EDIT:
If you’re hosting the font yourself — double check the #font-face call. Make sure you are calling all versions possible of the typeface. Also, Some browsers prefer certain formats being called earlier.
I downloaded a custom font (Gotham-Light.eot), but it doesn't work on Internet Explorer 9.
#font-face {
font-family: Gotham-Light;
src: url('Gotham-Light.eot');
}
This doesn't work. I'm using ASP MVC3 rebuilt, used custom tool, still nothing.
First, the goods:
#font-face {
font-family: 'ludger_duvernayregular';
src: url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.eot');
src: url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.woff') format('woff'),
url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.svg#ludger_duvernayregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
p.test {
font-family: 'ludger_duvernayregular', Arial, serif;
font-weight: 400;
color: blue;
}
Note, I used a font face that was purposefully easy to see as working. (And I don't have access to Gotham in a web font, so... I'm not even sure Gotham is licensed to use in web font form. If you do not have a license or the license does not allow for it, please respect that.) So you will have to do a little thinking about the paths to your font files.
What I've done is consult the blog post AlienWebGuy linked to, which is good. It's not long, so I'd read it. It boils down to:
Possibly a misconfigured MIME type for the font file. See below for more info. There's also a note that Apache may have this problem, it seems to be more of an IIS issue (according to the article).
You can trick (?) IE9 to use the EOT file instead of the WOFF, which apparently fixes the issue (according to the article).
Additionally, and as an aside, IE9 had a problem displaying the font with a jsFiddle demo using the same exact CSS. Very weird. IE7 and 8 worked fine, so I know it was working in some ways. I did not figure out what that was about, but I saved the same markup and CSS to a file on my site and it works fine.
Breakdown...
Let me explain what's going on in the above CSS. I'll go through each line. However, keep in mind I have the web font in the following file formats:
eot
woff
ttf
svg
You really probably only need eot, ttf and woff if you don't care to support legacy iOS. SVG translations are hard to obtain, though.
Now, first name your font so you can reference it:
font-family: 'ludger_duvernayregular';
IE9 Compat Modes:
src: url('http://jfcoder.com/css/fonts/ludgerduvernay-fontsquirrel/ludgerduvernay.eot');
Remember to verify the URLs you're using here actually lead to a real file. Put it in the address bar and see what happens (does it download? 404?).
On the following, though, I'm going to remove the full URL so you can see the entire statement, including the end.
IE6, 7 and 8:
src: url('http://../ludgerduvernay.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
Note this part:
.eot?#iefix <<< See below for an explanation.
Further IE CSS Fix
In some rare cases, IE will fail because the #font-face declaration
has too many characters. This can be solved in most instances by
adding a ‘#’ hash mark after the ‘?’ question mark. This buys you a
bit of extra room.
- From the Font Spring article
I have no idea why this works, so I'm taking their word for it.
Modern Browsers:
url('http://../ludgerduvernay.woff') format('woff'),
Safari, Android, iOS:
url('http://../ludgerduvernay.ttf') format('truetype'),
Legacy iOS:
url('http://../ludgerduvernay.svg#ludger_duvernayregular') format('svg');
Then use it:
p {
font-family: 'ludger_duvernayregular', Arial, serif;
}
I was actually surprised this works back to IE6. Anyways, notice that I use a full path to the file, not a relative one. That's usually a good place to start; check to make sure the link downloads. I'm making a big deal of this because it's basic and easy to screw up.
So if the file is downloading with the url and you've got it working in other browsers, and in IE6, 7 and/or 8, you can look at another possibility:
Fix IE9 on the Server Side (IIS)
Microsoft’s IIS server will refuse to send resources that it does not
have a MIME type for. The syntax we developed forces IE9 to take the
WOFF over the EOT, but if it is served on IIS, it will fail. This is
because IE9 requests the WOFF file, but since WOFF is not a defined
MIME type in IIS, a 404 Not Found error is returned. To solve this,
you must add ‘.woff’ with MIME type ‘application/x-font-woff’ to your
IIS installation.
- From the Font Spring article
So you may have to check your server isn't borking it. You can also use Chrome Console or Firebug NET tab to view the headers sent with the file.
Now I had a little help here, and I think you should think about the following options:
Google Web Fonts. Don't be a hero. They host the font, give you the include stylesheet markup, and presto whammo, you're in business. They also have some pretty cool fonts. There are other web font services, such as Typekit, Webtype, Fontdeck, and Fonts Live.
Font Squirrel has a #Font-Face Generator, which can give you all of the files you need (Warning: Only submit fonts you know to be licensed for web use.). Use the Expert mode, and it will give you a ZIP file with lots of great stuff, including a demo. The one I received you can download here. The interesting thing is, the generated CSS is identical to the Font Spring one, minus the comments. That's probably not a coincidence.
I found that awesome tool on this Opera Dev page. That is also worth reading.
And of course, that blog post AlienWebGuy linked to at Font Spring.
This stuff isn't hard, but you need to know how to troubleshoot. Always check that the file is downloading; you can use Chrome Console Resources tab or Firefox's Firebug add-on and watch the NET tab to see if it downloads. It if just literally won't work, post the page or code somewhere where we can get to it and we can review it.
Happy coding. :)
The super awesomely cool font used in the demo is Ludger Duvernay Regular. For more information, see Steve Cloutier/Cloutierfontes site. Thank you for making it free for personal use. :)
If you're following the instructions layed out here -- http://www.fontspring.com/blog/fixing-ie9-font-face-problems -- then it's most likely how your calling the fonts.
Make sure you are pointing to the right location from your stylesheet - the code you have above will only work if the font file is in the same directory as the stylesheet.
Hope this helps.
Gotham is a commercial product, and if you have just downloaded it from somewhere, it’s probably an illegal copy or a fake, and may well be technically broken too.
Consider using a free font of similar design, such as Cicle.
For googlers: I had a problem with either long font name or conflict with already installed font. Anyway IE were the only browser having problems.
I changed
font-family: 'HelveticaLTUltraCompressedRegular';
to
font-family: 'HelveticaLTUCR';
which solved my issue.
i am converting psd to html and font used in psd is moolboran, my tag font-family: MoolBoran;, which is not supported by browsers, how can i overcome this problem? is there any possible solution to as alternative?
Your options are to either save an image with your non-standard font, or use the CSS property font-face, and allow the site visitors to download the font file. For more details of this approach, see CSS 3: Custom Fonts Using #font-face.
Web safe fonts have been a bane to designers for a while, but you can check out Google Web Fonts to see if there's a font that's close (it doesn't look like they support MoolBoran unfortunately)
The only solutions are to
A) use an image rather than live text (which is generally a poor method)
B) See if a web font version of "MoolBoran" is available somewhere. And use the #font-family selector. I looked but can't find anything for it.
C) Change your design.
There is nothing wrong with that tag, it's certainly supported by all browsers.
The font does of course have to be installed on the visitors computer, which is probably where you have your problem.
If you want that exact font, you can make an image out of the text. That is the only sure way to get exactly the look that you want across all browsers.
You should supply fallback fonts in your tag, for example:
font-family: MoolBoran, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;