Custom font via CSS

Question

I am learning php, html and css now and I'm trying to use a custom font on my site. I found the @font-face property that allows to make that, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? css:

@font-face {font-family: LazurskiCTT;src:url(../sources/fonts/ie/LazurskiCTT Regular.eot);}
/*IE*/ 
@font-face {font-family:LazurskiCTT;src:url(../sources/fonts/LazurskiCTT Regular.Ttf);}
/*Other browsers*/
#myFonts{font-family:LazurskiCTT;}

html:

<p id="myFonts">Lazurski</p>

Maybe it's because I use it on my local machine? I run it in FireFox.

Answer 1

Assuming your font path are correct try this. Quote's... some say it not necessary, but i find it to work best. In some cases my CSS breaks without the quotes (Especially when white space is involved in path).

Note: Use this site to convert your ttf to eot for it to work on IE (Place both .ttf & .eot in same directory). http://ttf2eot.sebastiankippe.com/

@font-face {
    font-family: "LazurskiCTT"; 
    src:url("../sources/fonts/ie/LazurskiCTT Regular.eot"); /*IE*/
    src:url("../sources/fonts/LazurskiCTT Regular.Ttf") format("truetype"); /*Non-IE*/

}

This works for my site. Hope it works for you too.

Answer 2

It should work on your local machine. Try the following.

Make sure that the path to your font is correct.

@font-face {
font-family: CustomFont;
src: url('CustomFont.otf');
}
p {font-family:CustomFont, Helvetica, Arial}

---

<p>Text here</p>

Answer 3

The easiest (and best) way to get it to work is to use fontsquirrel's generator:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

Answer 4

You are missing a slash / after .., that may already be it.

Note that most Linux-based systems are case sensitive - the .Ttf may not work if it's not written exactly that way.

For a detailed walk-through how to set up custom fonts across browsers, also see this question: Error while using the custom fonts in css