I've been using Pictos and FontSquirrel for fancy dancy icons and typography on our web app. Today I saw that Droid phones and Android 2.3.4 (running on VirtualBox) does not display the font face at all. For the record, Google's own web fonts DO display properly.
Is there a known work around?
#font-face {
font-family: 'Pictos';
src: url('pictos-web.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('pictos-web.woff') format('woff'), url('pictos-web$
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Be advised that the bulletproof and bulletproof smiley methods you're using do not work on Android phones.
Try the Fontspring syntax.
Example:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Pictos';
src: url('pictos-web.eot');
src: url('pictos-web.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('pictos-web.woff') format('woff'),
url('pictos-web.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('pictos-web.svg#UbuntuBold') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
If eliminating the smiley syntax doesn't work... some browsers on android are rejecting "web-only" fonts. You can run them through the fontsquirrel generator without protection and use the unprotected woff file.
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For my client I'm building an website using the Times New Roman font.
Everything seems to work fine, except for Android devices (mobile, tablet). Android doesn't have a Times New Roman font available. As far as I know you can only use the Droid Serif font, which has a different look than Times. Besides that the font-size also differs and causes a lot of alignment issues.
Is there any way to use Times New Roman for Android? I know about fontface, but there isn't any free webfont available for Times New Roman. Maybe there's an (acceptable)equivalent for it?
Thanks in advance!
CSS
#font-face {
font-family: 'Times New Roman';
src: url(LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf) format('truetype');
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Times New Roman';
src: url(LiberationSerif-Italic.ttf) format('truetype');
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Times New Roman';
src: url(LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf) format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Times New Roman';
src: url(LiberationSerif-BoldItalic.ttf) format('truetype');
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
}
Download the Liberation Serif .ttf font, unzip and move files to webroot.
you could change the #font-face source urls and move your fonts wherever you want.
I have a phonegap app that uses a custom font declared as such in the css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'NewRockerRegular';
src: url('font/newrocker/NewRocker-Regular-webfont.eot');
src: url('font/newrocker/NewRocker-Regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded- opentype'), url('font/newrocker/NewRocker-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('font/newrocker/NewRocker-Regular-webfont.svg#NewRockerRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
body {
font-family: "NewRockerRegular";
}
The app works correctly when testing in Firefox and Chrome.
However when it's compiled into an android app the custom doesn't appear in anything styled with a header tag ( etc)
the font appears correctly on all the body text though.
If you're targeting Android 2.0 or 2.1, it's a known bug in WebView.
You can't use external WebFonts on these platforms.
I currently have an app with a webview. The webview loads css that determines the specific font each devices should use.
For my iOS devices I use HelveticaNeue CondensedBold since it is included with iOS5+. Since I cannot use this for earlier iOS and Android since it is not a system font I am using Googles OpenSans-CondensedBold.
The issue I am running into is on Android devices using 2.3.X. The font-family fallback is not working at all. Since the HelvelticaNeue font isn't present it just fails and doesn't fallback to the OpenSans which is next in line.
font-family: 'OpenSans-CondensedBold', 'Helvetica', 'Arial';
If I remove the HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold from the css in the above example, the OpanSans font works on the Android perfectly.
Current CSS Below.
#font-face {
font-family: 'OpenSans-CondensedBold';
src: url('/webfonts/opensans-condbold.eot');
src: url('/webfonts/opensans-condbold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/webfonts/opensans-condbold.woff') format('woff'),
url('/webfonts/opensans-condbold.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/webfonts/opensans-condbold.svg#OpenSans-CondensedBold') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
body {
font-size: 13px;
font-family: 'HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold', 'OpenSans-CondensedBold', 'Helvetica', 'Arial';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
you could try to encode the font file as base64 data uri.. sencha touch 2 is doing this also and it seems to work.
to do this upload your font file here http://dopiaza.org/tools/datauri/index.php
then use the generated code in your CSS like this
#font-face {
font-family: "My Font";
src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;base64,[base-encoded font here]) format('woff'),
url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,[base-encoded font here]) format('svg'),
url(data:application/x-font-ttf;base64,[base-encoded font here]) format('truetype');
}
in case you're using compass, it appearantly has has a method to encode the font file on the fly
there's a related question also to this method
I implemented an application in Android with PhoneGap. So UI is implemented with jQuery Mobile.
I used CSS font-face for giving custom font to application texts.
#font-face {
font-family: "MyFont";
src: url("../fonts/MyFont.ttf") format("truetype"),
src: url("../fonts/MyFont.otf") format("opentype");
}
body {
font-family: MyFont;
}
But when I install the application on Android, texts are shown by default font face.
How can I solve this problem in Android?
This is a correct syntax that works on android phones:
#font-face {
font-family: 'yanone';
src: url('fonts/yanone/YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.eot?') format('eot'),
url('fonts/yanone/YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/yanone/YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/yanone/YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.svg#webfont') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
You should also be careful about relative path to your custom font.
Is it possible to use #fontface with Android? If so can anyone explain weher i'm going wrong with below?
#font-face {
font-family: 'BloklettersPotlood';
src: url('fonts/Blokletters-Potlood-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/Blokletters-Potlood-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/Blokletters-Potlood-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/Blokletters-Potlood-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/Blokletters-Potlood-webfont.svg#BloklettersPotlood') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Cheers
Paul
Android does support #font-face. I'm using the same syntax and it works great (everywhere).
Have you tried to use another font?
Btw. if you are trying to apply your font for any headers, be sure you set font-weight: normal; in h1/h2/h3/hx style declaration.