How to embed fonts in CSS?

Question

I want to use some fonts and I want it to work without having this font on the client computer. I have done this but doesn\'t work:

@font-face {
    font-fam         


        

Answer 1

When I went to Google fonts all they gave me were true type font files .ttf and didn't explain at all how to use the @font-face to include them into my document. I tried the web font generator from font squirrel too, which just kept running the loading gif and not working... I then found this site -

https://transfonter.org/

I had great success using the following method:

I selected the Add Fonts button, leaving the default options, added all of my .ttf that Google gave me for Open Sans (which was like 10, I chose a lot of options...).

Then I selected the Convert button.

Heres the best part!

They gave me a zip file with all the font format files I selected, .ttf, .woff and .eot. Inside that zip file they had a demo.html file that I just double clicked on and it opened up a web page in my browser showing me example usages of all the different css font options, how to implement them, and what they looked like etc.

@font-face

I still didn't know at this point how to include the fonts into my stylesheet properly using @font-face but then I noticed that this demo.html came with it's own stylesheet in the zip as well. I opened the stylesheet and it showed how to bring in all of the fonts using @font-face so I was able to quickly, and easily, copy paste this into my project -

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-LightItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 300;
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBold.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBold.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBold.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 600;
    font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Regular.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Regular.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Light.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Light.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Light.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Light.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 300;
    font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Italic.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Italic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Italic.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Italic.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBoldItalic.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBoldItalic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBoldItalic.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-SemiBoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 600;
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBold.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 800;
    font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 800;
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Bold.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Bold.woff') format('woff'),
        url('fonts/Open_Sans/OpenSans-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: normal;
}

The demo.html also had it's own inline stylesheet that was interesting to take a look at, though I am familiar with working with font weights and styles once they are included so I didn't need it much. For an example of how to implement a font style onto an html element for reference purposes you could use the following method in a similar case to mine after @font-face has been used properly -

html, body{
    margin: 0;
    font-family: 'Open Sans';
}
.banner h1{
    font-size: 43px;
    font-weight: 700;
}
.banner p{
    font-size: 24px;
    font-weight: 300;
    font-style: italic;
}