css font family not appearing? - html

Question

I've ran into an issue with font-family; basically I'm doing all the right things (I hope) yet for some reason the font is doing some weird things. So let me explain the issue..
On my browser the font appears OK in chrome/IE yet it doesn't appear in mozilla.
On my dad's laptop, the font doesn't appear what-so-ever in any browser.
On my mates apple mac, the font appears in Safari but not in chrome.
On iPhone the font appears.
On Nexus 4 the font doesn't appear (in Chrome or Mozilla)
This is why I'm confused; Why is it appearing in some browsers on different platforms and not on the others? Can a font be specific to an OS?
Here's the CSS i'm using.
#font-face {
font-family: "Pixelated";
src: url('templates/joostrap/fonts/pixelated.ttf');
}
This is how i'm applying it.
{font-family: "Pixelated"; text-transform: uppercase;}
Any help would be appreciated! cheers!

Answer 1

The most common problem with fonts not showing up is that the path was not properly specified. This happens more when you have multiple file fonts such as: light, bold, medium. So perhaps your path is
src: url('templates/joostrap/fonts/pixelated.ttf');
But if multiple versions are in one directory, it could be
src: url('templates/joostrap/fonts/pixelated/pixelated.ttf');
This happened to me before. In my case I had the fonts.css in my CSS directory, then i had the fonts in assets and the variations of the fonts were in the same directory. In my case I had to implement the Across the Road font. So based on my directory structure I did
#font-face {
font-family: 'across_the_roadregular';
src: url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.eot');
src: url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../assets/fonts/across_the_road/across_the_road-webfont.svg#across_the_roadregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Notice that I specified various file types. This is because not all browsers can display the .ttf format. You can see compatability at http://caniuse.com/#feat=ttf

Answer 2

TTF fonts must be used differently when using in Chrome and Firefox. Check this link to setup the TTF correctly:
ttf files not rendering on Chrome and Firefox

Answer 3

The problem is that you're only using a .ttf file. Not every browser will be able to load it.
Instead you should use a generator (link) so you have a .eot and a .woff file aswell.
Your font CSS will look like this:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Pixelated';
src: url('../fonts/pixelated.eot');
src: url('../fonts/pixelated.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/pixelated.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/pixelated.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Hope this helped.

Answer 4

Specify a font named "myFirstFont", and specify the URL where it can be found
#font-face
{
font-family: myFirstFont;
src: url('Sansation_Light.ttf'),
url('Sansation_Light.eot'); /* IE9 */
}
Include a font file somewhere on your server, and refer to it with CSS
src: url('Sansation_Light.ttf')
If the font file is located at a different domain, use a full URL instead
src: url('http://www.w3schools.com/css3/Sansation_Light.ttf')
I think this link helps you http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_font-face_rule.asp