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@font-face

The @font-face CSS at-rule specifies a custom font with which to display text; the font can be loaded from either a remote server or the user's own computer. If the local() function is provided, specifying a font name to look for on the user's computer, and the user agent finds a match, that local font is used. Otherwise, the font resource specified using the url() function is downloaded and used.

By allowing authors to provide their own fonts, @font-face makes it possible to design content without being limited to the so-called "safe" fonts (that is, the fonts which are so common that they're considered to be universally available). The ability to specify the name of a locally-installed font to look for and use makes it possible to customize the font beyond the basics while making it possible to do so without relying on an Internet connection.

It's common to use both url() and local() together, so that the user's installed copy of the font is used if available, falling back to downloading a copy of the font if it's not found on the user's device.

The @font-face at-rule may be used not only at the top level of a CSS, but also inside any CSS conditional-group at-rule.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Open Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff2") format("woff2"),
       url("/fonts/OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff") format("woff");
}

Syntax

Descriptors

font-display

Determines how a font face is displayed based on whether and when it is downloaded and ready to use.

font-family

Specifies a name that will be used as the font face value for font properties.

font-stretch

A font-stretch value. Since Firefox 61 (and in other modern browsers) this also accepts two values to specify a range that is supported by a font-face, for example font-stretch: 50% 200%;

font-style

A font-style value. Since Firefox 61 (and in other modern browsers) this also accepts two values to specify a range that is supported by a font-face, for example font-style: oblique 20deg 50deg;

font-weight

A font-weight value. Since Firefox 61 (and in other modern browsers) this also accepts two values to specify a range that is supported by a font-face, for example font-weight: 100 400;

font-variant

A font-variant value.

font-feature-settings

Allows control over advanced typographic features in OpenType fonts.

font-variation-settings

Allows low-level control over OpenType or TrueType font variations, by specifying the four letter axis names of the features to vary, along with their variation values.

src

Specifies the resource containing the font data. This can be a URL to a remote font file location or the name of a font on the user's computer.

To provide the browser with a hint as to what format a font resource is — so it can select a suitable one — it is possible to include a format type inside a format() function:

src: url(ideal-sans-serif.woff) format("woff"),
     url(basic-sans-serif.ttf) format("opentype");

The available types are: "woff", "woff2", "truetype", "opentype", "embedded-opentype", and "svg".

unicode-range

The range of Unicode code points to be used from the font.

Formal syntax

@font-face {
  [ font-family: <family-name>; ] ||
  [ src: <src>; ] ||
  [ unicode-range: <unicode-range>; ] ||
  [ font-variant: <font-variant>; ] ||
  [ font-feature-settings: <font-feature-settings>; ] ||
  [ font-variation-settings: <font-variation-settings>; ] ||
  [ font-stretch: <font-stretch>; ] ||
  [ font-weight: <font-weight>; ] ||
  [ font-style: <font-style>; ]
}where 
<family-name> = <string> | <custom-ident>+

Examples

This example simply specifies a downloadable font to use, applying it to the entire body of the document:

View the live example

<html>
<head>
  <title>Web Font Sample</title>
  <style type="text/css" media="screen, print">
    @font-face {
      font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif Bold";
      src: url("https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/2468/VeraSeBd.ttf");
    }
    
    body { font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif Bold", serif }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  This is Bitstream Vera Serif Bold.
</body>
</html>

In this example, the user's local copy of "Helvetica Neue Bold" is used; if the user does not have that font installed (two different names are tried), then the downloadable font named "MgOpenModernaBold.ttf" is used instead:

@font-face {
  font-family: MyHelvetica;
  src: local("Helvetica Neue Bold"),
       local("HelveticaNeue-Bold"),
       url(MgOpenModernaBold.ttf);
  font-weight: bold;
}

Font MIME Types

Format	MIME type
TrueType	`font/ttf`
OpenType	`font/otf`
Web Open File Format	`font/woff`
Web Open File Format 2	`font/woff2`

Notes

Web fonts are subject to the same domain restriction (font files must be on the same domain as the page using them), unless HTTP access controls are used to relax this restriction.

@font-face cannot be declared within a CSS selector. For example, the following will not work:

.className { 
  @font-face { 
    font-family: MyHelvetica; 
    src: local("Helvetica Neue Bold"),
         local("HelveticaNeue-Bold"),
         url(MgOpenModernaBold.ttf);
    font-weight: bold; 
  } 
}

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WOFF File Format 2.0 The definition of 'WOFF2 font format' in that specification.	Recommendation	Font format specification with new compression algorithm
WOFF File Format 1.0 The definition of 'WOFF font format' in that specification.	Recommendation	Font format specification
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 The definition of '@font-face' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibilityUpdate compatibility data on GitHub

	Desktop
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	4	12	3.5	4	10	3.1
WOFF	6	Yes	3.5	9	11.1	5.1
WOFF 2	36	14	39 39 35 Disabled Disabled From version 35: this feature is behind the `gfx.downloadable_fonts.woff2.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	No	23	10 10 Supported only on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and later.
SVG fonts	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
`font-display`	60	No	58	No	47	Yes
`font-family`	4	12	3.5	6	9	3.1
`font-feature-settings`	No	No	34 34 The ISO/IEC CD 14496-22 3rd edition suggests using the `ssty` feature to provide glyph variants more suitable for use in scripts (for example primes used as superscripts). Starting with Firefox 29, this is done automatically by the MathML rendering engine. The ISO/IEC CD 14496-22 3rd edition also suggests applying the `dtls` feature to letters when placing mathematical accents to get dotless forms (for example dotless i, j with a hat). Starting with Firefox 35, this is done automatically by the MathML rendering engine. You can override the default values determined by the MathML rendering engine with CSS. 15 Prefixed Prefixed Requires the vendor prefix: -moz- From Firefox 4 to Firefox 14 (inclusive), Firefox supported an older, slightly different syntax. See OpenType Font Feature support in Firefox 4.	No	No	No
`font-variation-settings`	62	No	60 Disabled 60 Disabled Disabled From version 60: this feature is behind the `layout.css.font-variations.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	No	49	No
`font-style`	4	?	3.5	4	10	3.1
`font-weight`	4	12	3.5	4	10	3.1
`src`	4	12	3.5	6	9	3.1
`unicode-range`	Yes	Yes	36	9	Yes	Yes

	Mobile
	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Edge Mobile	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	iOS Safari	Samsung Internet
Basic support	Yes	Yes	12	4	10	Yes	Yes
WOFF	4.4	Yes	Yes	4	11	5	Yes
WOFF 2	37	36	14	39 39 35 Disabled Disabled From version 35: this feature is behind the `gfx.downloadable_fonts.woff2.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	23	10	3.0
SVG fonts	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
`font-display`	60	60	No	58	47	Yes	No
`font-family`	2.2	?	12	4	12	3.1	Yes
`font-feature-settings`	No	No	No	34 34 The ISO/IEC CD 14496-22 3rd edition suggests using the `ssty` feature to provide glyph variants more suitable for use in scripts (for example primes used as superscripts). Starting with Firefox 29, this is done automatically by the MathML rendering engine. The ISO/IEC CD 14496-22 3rd edition also suggests applying the `dtls` feature to letters when placing mathematical accents to get dotless forms (for example dotless i, j with a hat). Starting with Firefox 35, this is done automatically by the MathML rendering engine. You can override the default values determined by the MathML rendering engine with CSS. 15 Prefixed Prefixed Requires the vendor prefix: -moz- From Firefox 4 to Firefox 14 (inclusive), Firefox supported an older, slightly different syntax. See OpenType Font Feature support in Firefox 4.	No	No	No
`font-variation-settings`	62	62	No	60 Disabled 60 Disabled Disabled From version 60: this feature is behind the `layout.css.font-variations.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	Yes	No	No
`font-style`	Yes	?	?	4	10	Yes	Yes
`font-weight`	Yes	Yes	12	4	10	Yes	Yes
`src`	2.2	?	12	4	12	3.1	Yes
`unicode-range`	?	?	Yes	36	?	Yes	Yes