How can I test a webpage on my own machine as if I didn't have a certain font?
E.g. My web page uses the font Roboto. My computer has the Roboto font installed locally. How can I see what this webpage will look like on a computer without that font installed?
Assume that the font isn't included in the web page through some CDN or other method.
Deactivate or uninstall the font temporarily or alter the stylesheet to not include the declaration when requested from localhost.
Rename the font family in your CSS, so instead of defining the font family like this -
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('../fonts/roboto.eot');
src: url('../fonts/roboto.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/roboto.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/roboto.svg') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
}
Which will use system font if Roboto is installed, Change it to something like this -
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto_web'; //notice the name here
src: url('../fonts/roboto.eot');
src: url('../fonts/roboto.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/roboto.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/roboto.svg') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
}
So the font Roboto_web is something which is not installed in your system so it will always use web font. This way you will not have to uninstall or disable it from system.
And in the CSS you can use it like this-
.sample_class{font-family:"Roboto_web"}
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
Add this into your head.
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I'm using #font-face on my site and it does not work, 404 error on the .woff file. I have the fonts located at the root but could not find fonts
this is my font css file what is problem?
#font-face {
font-family: '---_2regular';
src: url('----regular-webfont.eot');
src: url('----regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('----regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('----regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('---regular-webfont.svg#---_2regular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
You must contact your Hosting company. Then They must add .woff extension to mime types.
Possible, your problem can been solved.
All you can read about woff and having them on your site:
http://www.google.com/fonts
Ensure your fonts located in the same directory as the css file, unless you have specified a path otherwise.
Give http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator a try, it gives an example HTML page with the font embedded, hopefully it should point you in the right direction!
Hello,
I am working on adding Font Awesome to my website.
On the Font Awesome github page it says simply:
"Install FontAwesome.otf and visit the copy & paste page. Happy designing"
Please can someone advise me - do I need to install all those other files that come in the folder downloaded from github? Those other files being:
fontawesome-webfont.eot
fontawesome-webfont.svg
fontawesome-webfont.ttf
fontawesome-webfont.woff
Thank you
Yes :) I would install all of them. They are font files for different browser support.
Upload the files to your website and use #font-face in CSS
http://www.font-face.com/
This ensures the most amount of users will be able to see your font.
Here's an example:
#font-face {
font-family: 'myFont';
src: url('includes/fonts/DejaVuSans-webfont.eot');
src: url('includes/fonts/DejaVuSans-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/LDejaVuSans-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('includes/fonts/DejaVuSans-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('includes/fonts/DejaVuSans-webfont.svg#DejaVuSansBook') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
body{ font-family: myFont, arial; }
I've built a custom wordpress theme that uses font-face for typography. All works fine when running in localhost, but after uploading the theme to a live site, font-face fails in FF. Still works fine in IE9
I've tried hardcoding the CSS link in header.php, moving the font files out of the theme to the site root, using a separate stylesheet for the #font-face declaration, but nothing wants to work.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Nathan
Did you include all the font files necessary? Different browsers support different types. For example, here's one I used on a site recently:
font-face {
font-family: 'GentiumBookBasicRegular';
src: url('_/fonts/GenBkBasR-webfont.eot');
src: url('_/fonts/GenBkBasR-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('_/fonts/GenBkBasR-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('_/fonts/GenBkBasR-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('_/fonts/GenBkBasR-webfont.svg#GentiumBookBasicRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
A fantastic resource for this is http://fontsquirrel.com - they'll even let you upload fonts that they don't have and they'll create the package and the css for you.
So firefox doesn't want to load my fonts, the path is right I also so the request in Firebug, but it won't render it. On other browser it works perfect, here is my code:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Gill Sans';
src: url('/fonts/gillsansstd-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('/fonts/gillsansstd-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/fonts/gillsansstd-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/fonts/gillsansstd-webfont.svg#webfontCBlAmwSC') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
I'm using wordpress and site address is set to www.site.com si i've read that on www. sites firefox won't render the fonts or something like that.Do you know a solution or something?
Solved when you link the css file just do /path/to_the_file
For some people, probably not your case because you solved it already, if the font extension is correct the problem could be on the MIME type extension, if you are using IIS be sure to tell him the MIME type or you are gonna face a nice 404
I am trying to embed my custom font in my website, got a link folder from http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator this site after uploading a font on this site, it gives me this CSS:
#font-face {
font-family: 'VoltaEFTU-Regular';
src: url('voltaeftu-regular-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'),
url('voltaeftu-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('voltaeftu-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('voltaeftu-regular-webfont.svg#webfonttKmU3jX8') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
But it's not working on my machines. How can I embed a font in my website?
Thanks
Mayur Mate
If I were doing it, I would take a look at how the Google Font API works…
#font-face code looks correct, but if you want use this font example in <p> you must use font-family: 'VoltaEFTU-Regular'; in this element. Look into generated demo.html file.