Using .otf fonts on web browsers - html

Question

I'm working on a website that requires font trials online, the fonts I have are all .otf
Is there a way to embed the fonts and get them working on all browsers?
If not, what other alternatives do I have ?

Answer 1

You can implement your OTF font using #font-face like:
#font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("path/GraublauWeb.otf") format("opentype");
}
#font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
font-weight: bold;
src: url("path/GraublauWebBold.otf") format("opentype");
}
// Edit: OTF now works in most browsers, see comments
However if you want to support a wide variety of browsers i would recommend you to switch to WOFF and TTF font types. WOFF type is implemented by every major desktop browser, while the TTF type is a fallback for older Safari, Android and iOS browsers. If your font is a free font, you could convert your font using for example a transfonter.
#font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("path/GraublauWebBold.woff") format("woff"), url("path/GraublauWebBold.ttf") format("truetype");
}
If you want to support nearly every browser that is still out there (not necessary anymore IMHO), you should add some more font-types like:
#font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("webfont.eot"); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url("webfont.eot?#iefix") format("embedded-opentype"), /* IE6-IE8 */
url("webfont.woff") format("woff"), /* Modern Browsers */
url("webfont.ttf") format("truetype"), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url("webfont.svg#svgFontName") format("svg"); /* Legacy iOS */
}
You can read more about why all these types are implemented and their hacks here. To get a detailed view of which file-types are supported by which browsers, see:
#font-face Browser Support
EOT Browser Support
WOFF Browser Support
TTF Browser Support
SVG-Fonts Browser Support

Answer 2

From the Google Font Directory examples:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Tangerine';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: local('Tangerine'), url('http://example.com/tangerine.ttf') format('truetype');
}
body {
font-family: 'Tangerine', serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
This works cross browser with .ttf, I believe it may work with .otf. (Wikipedia says .otf is mostly backwards compatible with .ttf) If not, you can convert the .otf to .ttf
Here are some good sites:
Good primer:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten
Other Info:
http://randsco.com/index.php/2009/07/04/p680