How to include a font .ttf using CSS?

I have a problem with my code. Because I want to include a global font for my page and I downloaded a .ttf file. And I include it in my main CSS but my font wont change.

Here's my simple code:

@font-face { font-family: 'oswald'; src: url('/font/oswald.regular.ttf'); } html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; font-size:100%; font:inherit; font-family: oswald; vertical-align:baseline } 

I don't know where did I go wrong. Can you help me with this? Thanks.

4 Answers

Only providing .ttf file for webfont won't be good enough for cross-browser support. The best possible combination at present is using the combination as :

@font-face { font-family: 'MyWebFont'; src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */ src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */ url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */ url('webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */ url('webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */ } 

This code assumes you have .eot , .woff , .ttf and svg format for you webfont. To automate all this process , you can use : Transfonter.org.

Also , modern browsers are shifting towards .woff font , so you can probably do this too : :

@font-face { font-family: 'MyWebFont'; src: url('myfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Chrome 6+, Firefox 3.6+, IE 9+, Safari 5.1+ */ url('myfont.ttf') format('truetype'); /* Chrome 4+, Firefox 3.5, Opera 10+, Safari 3—5 */ } 

Read more here :

Look for browser support : Can I Use fontface

Did you try format?

@font-face { font-family: 'The name of the Font Family Here'; src: URL('font.ttf') format('truetype'); } 

Read this article:

Also, might depend on browser as well.

You can use font face like this:

@font-face { font-family:"Name-Of-Font"; src: url("yourfont.ttf") format("truetype"); } 

I know this is an old post but this solved my problem.

@font-face{ font-family: "Font Name"; src: url("../fonts/font-name.ttf") format("truetype"); }

notice src:url("../fonts/font-name.ttf"); we use two periods to go back to the root directory and then into the fonts folder or wherever your file is located.

hope this helps someone down the line:) happy coding