I am creating a simple web page and I am applying a custom font (Roboto). I have declared them in the CSS file but Chrome detects it fine and Safari does not.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('/fonts/roboto500.eot');
src: url('/fonts/roboto500.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/fonts/roboto500.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('/fonts/roboto500.woff') format('woff'),
url('/fonts/roboto500.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/fonts/roboto500.svg') format('svg');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url('/fonts/roboto700.eot');
src: url('/fonts/roboto700.eot') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/fonts/roboto700.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('/fonts/roboto700.woff') format('woff'),
url('/fonts/roboto700.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/fonts/roboto700.svg') format('svg');
}
h1.site-title,
h2.subtitles {
font-family: 'Roboto' !important;
font-weight: bold;
}
h4.subtitles {
font-family: 'Roboto' !important;
font-weight: bold;
}
p {
font-family: 'Roboto' !important;
font-weight: normal;
color: rgb(90, 90, 90);
}
I checked with the Safari console to see if it was getting the fonts, and it does, but when I look at the files one by one, they don't match the original font.
Finally, thanks to some comments and such, I got it to work using another download link:
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto
From here Google offers different components to add to the CSS of your project, what I did was, just in case in the future that typography was no longer available in that link and I lost it, I downloaded it from the link that appears and I put it locally in my project and linked it with the relative path.
I have no idea if it was because the files I downloaded didn't work or any other reason, but the fact is that from this link and using only the one in woff2 format, it works both in Chrome and Safari.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 500;
src: url(../fonts/roboto/roboto.woff2) format('woff2');
}
I hope this may be of help to someone in the future. Many thanks to all of you who have responded.
I am making a basic informational website. In my CSS file I have the following:
#font-face {
font-family: "Nilland";
src: local('Nilland.ttf');
}
body{
background: #FFF;
font-size:14px;
font-family: Nilland;
}
The .ttf file is in the same directory as the index.html file. Why is this not working?
You need to include all types of your font instead of only .ttf, should be something like:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Nilland';
src: url('Nilland.eot');
src: url('Nilland.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('Nilland.woff') format('woff'),
url('Nilland.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('Nilland.svg#Nilland') format('svg');
}
Put the ttf files in the folder where the css file is.
The path in the css file is relative to the css-file, not the html file
Try specifying the complete path
#Felix is right although; try separate block for normal and bold font. Use svg and other formats for multiple browser compatibility and path may be issue not to work.
#font-face {
font-family: 'Nilland';
src: url('../fonts/Nilland.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/Nilland.svg') format('svg');
src: url('../fonts/Nilland.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: "Nilland";
src: url("../fonts/Nilland.ttf") format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}
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,300,300italic,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.