Font height differs for different font weights - html

I just added a webfont to my CSS file. I'd like to use different weights of the same font.
However if I set font-size: 14px at least Chrome and Firefox render the font in rather strange way.
All characters with font-weight: normal are in fact only 13px high and the bold parts are 15px high.†
Screenshot: (font-size set to 13px, 14px and 15px):
CSS font-face declaration:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Frutiger';
src: url('frutiger.eot');
src: url('frutiger.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('frutiger.woff') format('woff'),
url('frutiger.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Frutiger';
src: url('frutiger-bold.eot');
src: url('frutiger-bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('frutiger-bold.woff') format('woff'),
url('frutiger-bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}
Usage Example:
<p style="font-family: Frutiger; font-size: 13px">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
<p style="font-family: Frutiger; font-size: 14px">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
<p style="font-family: Frutiger; font-size: 15px">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
Source of font:
Unknown, file has been passed along in my company for years. I used Font Squirrel to generate the *.woff, *.svg, and *.eot files. Same results with and without Font Squirrel's hinting feature.
Live Example:
http://font-render-issue.herokuapp.com/
Is there a way I can fix this?
† If you blend the first line (13px) over the second (14px) you can see that the non-bold parts match exactly. If you do the same thing with the second and third (15px) line, you can see that the bold parts match (at least in terms of height).

1) Like Jukka K. Korpela says, there is no CSS that actually uses the font.
2) The strange rendering you experience is the browser that tries to fake the bold style.
CSS:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Frutiger';
src: url('frutiger.eot');
src: url('frutiger.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('frutiger.woff') format('woff'),
url('frutiger.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Frutiger';
src: url('frutiger-bold.eot');
src: url('frutiger-bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('frutiger-bold.woff') format('woff'),
url('frutiger-bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}
/* You did this inline with style="...". */
/* The font from the first #font-face */
p { font-family: Frutiger; }
/* Gets the bold font from the second #font-face */
strong { font-weight: bold; }
.small { font-size: 13px; }
.medium { font-size: 14px; }
.large { font-size: 15px; }
HTML:
<p class="small">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
<p class="medium">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
<p class="large">ABCABC<strong>ABCDABCD</strong>ASDFASDF</p>
EDIT
The font's look fine on my machine (Mac, Firefox, Safari). woff files are used.
Then I submitted the example.html to browsershots: http://browsershots.org/http://font-render-issue.herokuapp.com/example.html#
A lot of different outputs. Windows needs (better) hinting.
The Grid Fit ('gasp' table) of the fonts have one entry. They both have one range defined at 65535, which is okay.
I also bumped into the copyright info. You might want to consider alternative fonts. ;) http://joelcrawfordsmith.com/new/font/frutiger
The two fonts are from the same release. But a local file may take precedence. You can disable loading local files with the font face smiley hack.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Graublau Web';
src: url('GraublauWeb.eot');
src: local('☺︎'),
url('GraublauWeb.otf') format('opentype');
}
This is all I can think off for now.

Related

How can i include different font-weights with one font file?

I am currently making a website in Wordpress. The problem I have is using a font. I couldn't find an answer to my question here, so I decided to ask myself. Someone send a font to me to use, but the problem is when I open the file there are different styles of that font. To be clearer: the font is Avenir Next and the different styles are Avenir Next Bold, Avenir Next Medium, Avenir Next Ultra Light.
It is not a google font. I have tried to include it with #font-face :
#font-face {
font-family: Avenir Next;
src: url('http://localhost/cultuurfonds/wp-
content/themes/monstroid/fonts/Avenir-Next.ttf');
font-weight: bold;
font-weight: 700;
}
#font-face {
font-family: Avenir Next Medium;
src: url('http://localhost/cultuurfonds/wp-
content/themes/monstroid/fonts/Avenir-Next.ttf');
font-weight: normal;
font-weight: 400;
}
With this I can use the Avenir Next (which is pretty bold, so I don't want to use that), but Avenir Next Medium doesn't work.
It is a paid font, but I am not the one who bought it. That person send the font file (Avenir-Next.ttf) to me, so this is what I have to work with.
I prefer to not use a plugin to include it. I couldn't find a good plugin for it anyway. But if there is no other way than to use a plugin, I am willing to use it.
I hope my question is clear (first question here).
If you want to load fonts from your local files, firstly you have to use tools like https://www.web-font-generator.com/ to generate different formats of the font.
Then you have to load all formats of the font like this
#font-face {
font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro';
src: url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Regular.otf') format('opentype'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Regular.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Regular.svg#AvenirNextLTPro-Regular') format('svg');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro';
src: url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Demi.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Demi.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Demi.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/AvenirNextLTPro-Demi.svg#AvenirNextLTPro-Demi') format('svg');
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
}
As you can see font-family name is the same, but font weight size is different (Regular - 400 and Demi - 500)
Then, when you want to use different font weight in different elements you have to declare it like this:
p {
font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro';
font-weight: 400;
}
h1 {
font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro';
font-weight: 500;
}

How do I specify that "bold" should be "Avenir Heavy" not "Avenir Black"?

I need to send HTML-formatted email using the Avenir font (if it's present in the OS). Two of this font's weights are Heavy and Black (the latter being the heaviest weight). I want mail clients to use Avenir Heavy for bold text, but they're using Avenir Black instead.
In my HTML I have a <style type="text/css"> tag with:
body {
font-family: Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.font_h1 {
font-weight: bold;
}
When I open my HTML file in a desktop browser (Firefox, Chrome, or Safari), it uses Avenir Heavy as the bold font. But when I email it and view it in Mac Outlook 2016 or in iOS 10's Mail client, those display the bold font with Avenir Black, which is a much heavier font. Same thing happens if I specify the font-weight as bolder.
Oddly, if I say:
body {
font-family: Avenir Heavy;
}
then the page is still rendered by desktop browsers with Avenir Medium, with Avenir Heavy used for bold.
I don't think that #font-face is my answer, because I'm not loading a font from a URL.
How can I tell the browser or mail client to specifically use Avenir Heavy as the bold weight?
I declare Avenir like this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Avenir';
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
src: local('Avenir Book'), local('Avenir-300'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Book/Avenir-Book.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Book/Avenir-Book.woff') format('woff'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Book/Avenir-Book.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Avenir';
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
src: local('Avenir Medium'), local('Avenir-500'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Medium/Avenir-Medium.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Medium/Avenir-Medium.woff') format('woff'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Medium/Avenir-Medium.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Avenir';
font-weight: 700;
font-style: normal;
src: local('Avenir Heavy'), local('Avenir-700'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Heavy/Avenir-Heavy.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Heavy/Avenir-Heavy.woff') format('woff'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Heavy/Avenir-Heavy.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Avenir';
font-weight: 900;
font-style: normal;
src: local('Avenir Black'), local('Avenir-900'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Black/Avenir-Black.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Black/Avenir-Black.woff') format('woff'),
url('../../assets/fonts/Avenir-Black/Avenir-Black.ttf') format('truetype');
}
And then in CSS:
body {
font-family: Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
h1 {
font-weight: 900; // black
}
h2 {
font-weight: 700; // heavy
}
h3 {
font-weight: 500; // medium
}
...
I think you need to explicitly open the font (using a font processing app, such as fontforge) and check which family it belongs to. Then use that family name and you'll be home safe. Also, if you want to be precise about your weights, use numbered values such as
400 for normal
700 for bold
900 for black
etc.

How can I use Google's Roboto font on a website?

I want to use Google's Roboto font on my website and I am following this tutorial:
http://www.maketecheasier.com/use-google-roboto-font-everywhere/2012/03/15
I have downloaded the file which has a folder structure like this:
Now I have three questions:
I have css in my media/css/main.css url. So where do I need to put that folder?
Do I need to extract all eot,svg etc from all sub folder and put in fonts folder?
Do I need to create css file fonts.css and include in my base template file?
The example he uses this
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.eot');
src: url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.svg#RobotoThinItalic') format('svg'); (under the Apache Software License).
font-weight: 200;
font-style: italic;
}
What should my url look like, if I want to have the dir structure like:
/media/fonts/roboto
You don't really need to do any of this.
Go to Google's Web Fonts page
search for Roboto in the search box at the top right
Select the variants of the font you want to use
click 'Select This Font' at the top and choose the weights and character sets you need.
The page will give you a <link> element to include in your pages, and a list of sample font-family rules to use in your CSS.
Using Google's fonts this way guarantees availability, and reduces bandwidth to your own server.
There are TWO approaches that you can take to use licensed web-fonts on your pages:
1. Font Hosting Services like Typekit, Fonts.com, Fontdeck, etc.
These services provide an easy interface for designers to manage fonts purchased, and generate a link to a dynamic CSS or JavaScript file that serves up the font. Google even provides this service for free (here is an example for the Roboto font you requested).
JS font loaders like the one used by Google and Typekit (i.e. WebFont loader) provide CSS classes and callbacks to help manage the FOUT that may occur, or response timeouts when downloading the font.
<head>
<!-- get the required files from 3rd party sources -->
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<!-- use the font -->
<style>
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
</style>
</head>
2. The DIY approach
This involves getting a font licensed for web use, and (optionally) using a tool like FontSquirrel's generator (or some software) to optimize its file size. Then, a cross-browser implementation of the standard #font-face CSS property is used to enable the font(s).
This approach can provide better load performance since you have a more granular control over the characters to include and hence the file-size.
/* get the required local files */
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('roboto.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url('roboto.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('roboto.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
url('roboto.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('roboto.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}
/* use the font */
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
TLDR;
There are two major approches to embed custom fonts on your website. Using font hosting services along with #font-face declaration gives best output with respect to overall performance, compatibility and availability.
Source: https://www.artzstudio.com/2012/02/web-font-performance-weighing-fontface-options-and-alternatives/ (link is dead)
UPDATE
Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source. You can now manually generate the Roboto fonts using instructions that can be found here.
Old post, I know.
This is also possible using CSS #import url:
#import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,100,100italic,300,300ita‌​lic,400italic,500,500italic,700,700italic,900italic,900);
html, body, html * {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
The src refers directly to the font files, therefore if you place all of them on /media/fonts/roboto you should refer to them in your main.css like this:
src: url('../fonts/roboto/Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.eot');
The .. goes one folder up, which means you're referring to the media folder if the main.css is in the /media/css folder.
You have to use ../fonts/roboto/ in all url references in the CSS (and be sure that the files are in this folder and not in subdirectories, such as roboto_black_macroman).
Basically (answering to your questions):
I have css in my media/css/main.css url. So where do i need to put that folder
You can leave it there, but be sure to use src: url('../fonts/roboto/
Do i need to extract all eot,svg etc from all sub folder and put in fonts folder
If you want to refer to those files directly (without placing the subdirectories in your CSS code), then yes.
Do i need to create css file fonts.css and include in my base template file
Not necessarily, you can just include that code in your main.css. But it's a good practice to separate fonts from your customized CSS.
Here's an example of a fonts LESS/CSS file I use:
#ttf: format('truetype');
#font-face {
font-family: 'msb';
src: url('../font/msb.ttf') #ttf;
}
.msb {font-family: 'msb';}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('../font/Roboto-Regular.ttf') #ttf;
}
.rb {font-family: 'Roboto';}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Black';
src: url('../font/Roboto-Black.ttf') #ttf;
}
.rbB {font-family: 'Roboto Black';}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Light';
src: url('../font/Roboto-Light.ttf') #ttf;
}
.rbL {font-family: 'Roboto Light';}
(In this example I'm only using the ttf)
Then I use #import "fonts"; in my main.less file (less is a CSS preprocessor, it makes things like this a little bit easier)
For Website you can use 'Roboto' font as below:
If you have created separate css file then put below line at the top of css file as:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,300i,400,400i,500,500i,700,700i,900,900i');
Or if you don't want to create separate file then add above line in between <style>...</style>:
<style>
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?
family=Roboto:300,300i,400,400i,500,500i,700,700i,900,900i');
</style>
then:
html, body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
With css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('../font/Roboto-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
/* etc, etc. */
With sass:
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto'), local('Roboto-Regular'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: normal
font-style: normal
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto Bold'), local('Roboto-Bold'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Bold.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: bold
font-style: normal
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto Italic'), local('Roboto-Italic'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: normal
font-style: italic
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto BoldItalic'), local('Roboto-BoldItalic'), url('../fonts/Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: bold
font-style: italic
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto Light'), local('Roboto-Light'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Light.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: 300
font-style: normal
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto LightItalic'), local('Roboto-LightItalic'), url('../fonts/Roboto-LightItalic.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: 300
font-style: italic
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto Medium'), local('Roboto-Medium'), url('../fonts/Roboto-Medium.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: 500
font-style: normal
#font-face
font-family: 'Roboto'
src: local('Roboto MediumItalic'), local('Roboto-MediumItalic'), url('../fonts/Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf') format('truetype')
font-weight: 500
font-style: italic
/* Roboto-Regular.ttf 400 */
/* Roboto-Bold.ttf 700 */
/* Roboto-Italic.ttf 400 */
/* Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf 700 */
/* Roboto-Medium.ttf 500 */
/* Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf 500 */
/* Roboto-Light.ttf 300 */
/* Roboto-LightItalic.ttf 300 */
/* https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto#standard-styles */
This is what I did to get the woff2 files I wanted for static deployment without having to use a CDN
TEMPORARILY add the cdn for the css to load the roboto fonts into index.html and let the page load.
from google dev tools look at sources and expand the fonts.googleapis.com node and view the content of the css?family=Roboto:300,400,500&display=swap file and copy the content. Put this content in a css file in your assets directory.
In the css file, remove all the greek, cryllic and vietnamese stuff.
Look at the lines in this css file that are similar to:
src: local('Roboto Light'), local('Roboto-Light'), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v20/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc4.woff2) format('woff2');
copy the link address and paste it in your browser, it will download the font. Put this font into your assets folder and rename it here, as well as in the css file. Do this to the other links, I had 6 unique woff2 files.
I followed the same steps for material icons.
Now go back and comment the line where you call the cdn and instead use use the new css file you created.
Try this
<style>
#font-face {
font-family: Roboto Bold Condensed;
src: url(fonts/Roboto_Condensed/RobotoCondensed-Bold.ttf);
}
#font-face {
font-family:Roboto Condensed;
src: url(fonts/Roboto_Condensed/RobotoCondensed-Regular.tff);
}
div1{
font-family:Roboto Bold Condensed;
}
div2{
font-family:Roboto Condensed;
}
</style>
<div id='div1' >This is Sample text</div>
<div id='div2' >This is Sample text</div>
Use /fonts/ or /font/ before font type name in your CSS stylesheet. I face this error but after that its working fine.
#font-face {
font-family: 'robotoregular';
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#robotoregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
/* -- Roboto-Family -- */
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Thin.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Thin.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-ThinItalic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-ThinItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 100;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Light.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Light.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Regular.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Italic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Italic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Medium.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Medium.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-MediumItalic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 500;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Bold.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 700;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Black.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-Black.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 900;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-BlackItalic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/Roboto-BlackItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 900;
font-style: italic;
}
/* -- Roboto-Condensed-Family -- */
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-Bold.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 700;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-BoldItalic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 700;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-Light.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-Light.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed';
src: url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-LightItalic.woff') format('woff'), url('./fonts/Roboto/RobotoCondensed-LightItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: italic;
}
it's easy
every folder of those you downloaded has a different kind of roboto font, means they are different fonts
example: "roboto_regular_macroman"
to use any of them:
1- extract the folder of the font you want to use
2- upload it near the css file
3- now include it in the css file
example for including the font which called "roboto_regular_macroman":
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('roboto_regular_macroman/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot');
src: url('roboto_regular_macroman/Roboto-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('roboto_regular_macroman/Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('roboto_regular_macroman/Roboto-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('roboto_regular_macroman/Roboto-Regular-webfont.svg#RobotoRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
watch for the path of the files, here i uploaded the folder called "roboto_regular_macroman" in the same folder where the css is
then you can now simply use the font by typing font-family: 'Roboto';
It's actually quite simple. Go to the font on Google's website, and add its link to the head of every page you want to include the font.
Did you read the How_To_Use_Webfonts.html that's in that zip file?
After reading that, it seems that each font subfolder has an already created .css in there that you can use by including this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />
Spent an hour, fixing the font issues.
Related answer - Below is for React.js website:
Install the npm module:
npm install --save typeface-roboto-mono
import in .js file you want to use
one of the below:
import "typeface-roboto-mono"; // if import is supported
require('typeface-roboto-mono') // if import is not supported
For the element you can use
one of the below:
fontFamily: "Roboto Mono, Menlo, Monaco, Courier, monospace", // material-ui
font-family: Roboto Mono, Menlo, Monaco, Courier, monospace; /* css */
style="font-family:Roboto Mono, Menlo, Monaco, Courier, monospace;font-weight:300;" /*inline css*/
Hope that helps.

Import html fonts and their style variations?

I'm implementing google's font named Roboto in my site.
I need 2 types : bold and regular.
So I checked both types and pressed the download button :
But in the downloaded rar file I got ALL the font styles ( also ones which I didn't choose) :
Anyway I wanted to test the regular font : (the fonts are now in my site and not being loaded from google).
(I got those other extensions types (eot,woff,svg) using a font converter (http://www.font2web.com/))
So I did :
<style type="text/css">
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-Regular.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-Regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-Regular.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-Regularo.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}
body { font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif; }
</style>
Question :
Let's say I want to apply a Roboto bold style to a div.
Should I do it like this :
div {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-weight:bold
}
or should I do this ( start all over...)
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto-bold';
src: url('/font-face/Regular/Roboto-bold.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
...
}
and then
div { font-family: 'Roboto-bold', sans-serif; }
This is what you have to do:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: /* links to the Regular files */;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 700;
src: /* links to the Bold files */;
}
Notice how the same font name is used in both #font-face rules. Now the browser knows that the font "Roboto" exists in two variants. The browser will automatically choose the best variant based on your CSS. So, for example:
div {
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
Here the browser chooses the Bold font file. It's all automatic. You just have to make sure that you set up the #font-face rules correctly.
Any reason why you're downloading the font? If you're using it in a web site you can just use the #import code given by Google.
The checkboxes choosing the variations at the beginning only define the import code. If you choose to download the font to your computer it always gives you all variations regardless of the choices you made.
To use the font just include the link to the stylesheet containing the #font-face which google gives you. E.g.
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
or
#import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto);
in your existing stylesheet.
And then it's just a case of setting the font-family for the elements you choose. E.g.
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
Regarding your question :
Yes, you need a separate #font-face for each variation. See example from google
Google example :
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: local('Roboto Regular'), local('Roboto-Regular'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/roboto/v8/2UX7WLTfW3W8TclTUvlFyQ.woff) format('woff');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 700;
src: local('Roboto Bold'), local('Roboto-Bold'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/roboto/v8/d-6IYplOFocCacKzxwXSOD8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff');
}
If you don't include a bold variation for your font the browser will render bolded text as faux-bold instead. This can have variable appearance depending on browser and OS. Likewise for italic and bold-italic.
From your question it looks like your only declaring one font-face rule, related to the Regular version of the Roboto font.
Using the CSS from your question:
div {
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
Will result in the browser faux bolding the font. The reason is, the font-face rule hasn't been included for the bold version of the font. Reference here: http://alistapart.com/article/say-no-to-faux-bold
As others (#yotam, etc) have mentioned (regardless of how the fonts are being served) you would need to declare a font-face rule for each font weight.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: /* links to the Regular files */;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 700;
src: /* links to the Bold files */;
}
You would then use that font weight as follows:
body {
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
}
h1 {
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
}
I would stress to use the actual font weight value and not font-weight: bold. As mentioned using font-weight: bold leaves the decision down the the browser.
At some point you may use a font with weights of 700, 900. Say 700 is be bold, 900 extra bold. If your declaring font-weight: bold the 900 weight would be used, which isn't the effect you would want.
You don't have to start all over.. if you got #font-face in your style then all you need to add is font-family like you said.
div {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-weight:bold
}
And just for make it clear you can make the font as default by using him in body element like this
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
font-weight:bold
}
EDIT:
You might considering download your font into your website folder, then instead taking website loading time you'll just have to add the next code to your #font-face:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('fonts/font.ttf'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
/*....*/
}
The font should be inside fonts folder and he named font.

How to define separate fonts for each font-style - CSS

I have an HTML page, containing various font-styles like normal, bold, italics, oblique etc., defined using CSS. I want to use separate fonts for each font-style, say, myboldfont for bold, myitalicsfont for italics etc. I import fonts using #font-face, like,
#font-face {
font-family: "MyNormal";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url("mynormalfont.woff") format("woff");
}
#font-face {
font-family: "MyBold";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url("myboldfont.woff") format("woff");
}
#font-face {
font-family: "MyItalics";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url("myitalicsfont.woff") format("woff");
}
#font-face {
font-family: "MyOblique";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url("myobliquefont.woff") format("woff");
}
and imported normal, italics, bold and oblique fonts. I defined body styling like;
body{
font-family: MyNormal, MyBold, MyItalics, MyOblique;
}
Is this enough to define styling for all font-styles in the body? I mean if I assign font-style: italic or font-weight: bold to an element, will the italics font or bold font be used? Or what should I do to achieve this, so that if I use font-weight: bold for any element, myboldfont.woff should be used.
This should work:
#font-face {
font-family: "MyFont";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url("mynormalfont.woff") format("woff");
}
#font-face {
font-family: "MyFont";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
src: url("myboldfont.woff") format("woff");
}
And this:
...{
font-family:"MyFont";
font-weight:bold;
}...
Then you would always use the same name for the font-family, but you would change the different properties.
The CSS listed in the question is the safest approach. IE8 has display issues when more than 1 weight, or when more than 4 weights or styles, are linked to a font-family name. Using a unique font-family name for each font variation avoids this problem.
When a unique font-family name is used for each font variation, it's not necessary to identify the weight or style in the #font-face declartion, or in the CSS rules for HTML elements that use the font.
Also, to support the widest possible set of browsers, use a combination of .woff, .ttf, and .eot for the embedded fonts. This is the approach used by TypeKit:
#font-face {
font-family: 'MyNormal';
src: url('mynormalfont.eot');
src: url('mynormalfont.eot?#iefix')
format('embedded-opentype'),
url('mynormalfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('mynormalfont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'MyBold';
src: url('myboldfont.eot');
src: url('myboldfont.eot?#iefix')
format('embedded-opentype'),
url('myboldfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('myboldfont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'MyItalics';
src: url('myitalicsfont.eot');
src: url('myitalicsfont.eot?#iefix')
format('embedded-opentype'),
url('myitalicsfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('myitalicsfont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'MyOblique';
src: url('myobliquefont.eot');
src: url('myobliquefont.eot?#iefix')
format('embedded-opentype'),
url('myobliquefont.woff') format('woff'),
url('myobliquefont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
And the font variants are used as follows:
p {
font-family: MyNormal, sans-serif; /* Still useful to add fallback fonts */
font-size: 12px;
}
h2 {
font-family: MyBold, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
}
The downside is that the font-family name has to be specified in every CSS rule that uses one of the font variations. But that could be considered the price that has to be paid for wide cross-browser support at present.