How can I use Google's Roboto font on a website?

Question

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

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Answer 1

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>

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Spent an hour, fixing the font issues.

Related answer - Below is for React.js website:

1. Install the npm module:

   npm install --save typeface-roboto-mono

2. 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

3. 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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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)

Answer 6

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;
}