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Q2: Adding Custom Fonts with CSS. By Michelle Feb 15. Set the font in the customiser settings to default and you should be good. Vote Up 0 Vote Down Reply. September 29, 2017 11:20 am. Yes you can use Font Squirrel to generate the web font versions and add those to the css and the folder and it should work fine. After the color, the font is probably the most basic property of a page. On this page I won't show any 'tricks,' but I will show the range of font variations that CSS allows. The following table shows examples of various fonts (your browser may not know all of them) and you can see what your browser.
Dave, Very excellent article breaking down the differences in web font service loading and self-hosting. You missed our FOUT-B-GONE script that we wrote a year ago to automatically handle FF3.6 and IE9.
– check it out. One thing you also need to note about self-hosting over services like Typekit, WebINK and others is rendering fonts in browsers can be a crazy mess at times.
If the font is not built correctly fonts can stop rendering in a new version of browser. It is why each of our services have invested heavily into testing fonts before they go live and continue testing when new browsers arrive in the Alpha and Beta channels. Beyond that you also need to consider that services can deliver fonts optimized for OS/Browser combinations that standard self-hosting stacks cannot do. For instance Google sends fonts without hinting to Mac and iOS devices making the fonts sometimes 50% smaller.
Typekit began a while ago sending WOFF/CFF instead of WOFF/TFF fonts to Windows computers to render cleaner looking fonts. And our Service WebINK will begin very soon doing both of these offerings and more in a very short time frame. We have also just introduced a new method of requesting fonts that bundles up all font requests into a single call, thus reducing the network traffic between a browser and our servers. So while self-hosting a font file might appear faster in some testing it might not be the best solution always. @Brad – The FOUT-B-Gone test page threw an error in IE8 when I went to try it out. I was also against the approach of waiting until all stylesheets were downloaded and then parsing their cssText using RegEx, then performing the hide and show of the text when ready — it struck me as inefficient and having unintended rendering consequences. Re: bundling fonts together, I’d worry that in serving them together they may not all be used on the page, wasting bytes; larger files also are subject to cache limits on mobile, something else we need to watch out for.
I’d be curious to see Google’s unhinted fonts and their byte savings; exporting fonts without hinting in the FontSquirrel Generator did not yield savings (but I did notice Google’s EOTs were not hinted and gross looking, something I meant to mention in the article). Dave, Thanks for the notes about fout-b-gone.
Yes it was built to handle the simple approach so it had some trade-offs. Regarding the bundling I mentioned. Its not that we are bundling the fonts together but the first request for them. Prior to our change we had users place a @font-face link for each font required in their CSS.
Now one link makes a call for all of the fonts. Actually it makes a call for a dynamic CSS generation that writes the @font-face calls to the page and gets the fonts. One thing i was wondering in your comparison of services (google and typekit) how did you make sure that the font file sizes were the same? Each vendor can do specific things to a font and sizes can vary wildly for the same font face.
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But its pretty easy to see why the font for typekit comes back faster when the base64 version is returned with the CSS and thus there is no third step as is shown for Google. Did you also test based on downloading multiple fonts at once. Say with 4 font-faces which is a typical setup for a single font? It would be interesting to see how that larger single chunk of data effects pageload.
Just as you were concerned about what you thought we introduced with combining fonts. Either way glad to see all the discussion.