@font-face svg not working properly in Chrome?

Question

I have an issue with a specific font and the way it\'s rendered in Chrome.

Firefox shows the font properly due to using ttf.

Chrome doesn\'t use antialias a

Answer 1

When referencing SVG files in @font-face the id (#) in the filepath is specifying the element inside the .svg file. To find the correct id you can open it in an editor and inspect the tag.

For example:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'latobold';
    src: url('../fonts/lato/lato-bold-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/lato/lato-bold-webfont.svg#latobold') format('svg'),
         url('../fonts/lato/lato-bold-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('../fonts/lato/lato-bold-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('../fonts/lato/lato-bold-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

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