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@font-face

The @font-face CSS at-rule allows authors to specify online fonts to display text on their web pages. By allowing authors to provide their own fonts, @font-face eliminates the need to depend on the limited number of fonts users have installed on their computers. 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.
font-style: A font-style value.
font-weight: A font-weight value.
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.
unicode-range: The range of Unicode code points to be used from the font.

Formal syntax

@font-face {
  [ font-family: <family-name>; ] ||
  [ src: [ <url> [ format(<string>#) ]? | <font-face-name> ]#; ] ||
  [ unicode-range: <urange>#; ] ||
  [ font-variant: <font-variant>; ] ||
  [ font-feature-settings: normal | <feature-tag-value>#; ] ||
  [ font-variation-settings: normal | [ <string> <number>] # ||
 [ font-stretch: <font-stretch>; ] ||
  [ font-weight: <weight>; ] ||
  [ font-style: <style>; ]
}where 
<family-name> = <string> | <custom-ident>+
<feature-tag-value> = <string> [ <integer> | on | off ]?

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;
}

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.
Because there are no defined MIME types for TrueType, OpenType, and Web Open File Format (WOFF) fonts, the MIME type of the file specified is not considered.

@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.	Candidate 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 compatibility

Feature	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	39 35¹	No	23	10²
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	34³ 15 -moz- ⁴	No	No	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

Feature	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Edge mobile	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	iOS Safari	Samsung Internet
Basic support	Yes	Yes	12	4	10	Yes	?
WOFF	4.4	Yes	Yes	4	11	5	?
WOFF 2	36	36	14	39 35¹	23	10	?
SVG fonts	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	?
`font-display`	60	60	No	58	47	Yes	?
`font-family`	2.2	?	12	4	12	3.1	?
`font-feature-settings`	No	No	No	34³ 15 -moz- ⁴	No	No	?
`font-style`	Yes	?	?	4	10	Yes	?
`font-weight`	Yes	Yes	12	4	10	Yes	?
`src`	2.2	?	12	4	12	3.1	?
`unicode-range`	?	?	Yes	36	?	Yes	?

1. 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.

2. Supported only on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and later.

3. 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.

4. From Firefox 4 to Firefox 14 (inclusive), Firefox supported an older, slightly different syntax. See OpenType Font Feature support in Firefox 4.