How to utilize WebFonts from local drive

[sieweb]

HI, I have lots of WebFonts
TrueType: . t t f
Embedded OpenType: . e o t
Web Open Font Format: . w o f f
on my local drive. Is there a way to use these direct in WWB?
horst

[Bluesman]

HI, I have lots of WebFonts
TrueType: . t t f
Embedded OpenType: . e o t
Web Open Font Format: . w o f f
on my local drive. Is there a way to use these direct in WWB?
horst

Hi sieweb. Yes you can use the "@font-face fonts" Tools/Fonts/@font-face/Manually specify Font-face fonts. Here you link the fonts with the different formats for each typeface. The most important formats to link are: .ttf, woff and woff2

The .ttf font shall also be installed in the OS.

[Pablo]

Maybe this will be helpful?
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/webfonts.html

[sieweb]

Hi, thank you both of you,
I should have written more in detail: I've already read and tried @font-face manager.
I have purchased:
https://www.softmaker.com/en/products/fonts/megafont
(there has been an unresistable offer shortly )
Font-face manager only allows me to select fonts one by one and no font families - the automatic procedure is no option as I already have the ttf, eof and woff files. With so many fonts no realistic way.

horst

[Pablo]

Did you install the font before adding it via @font-face?

[Bluesman]

Font-face manager only allows me to select fonts one by one and no font families - the automatic procedure is no option as I already have the ttf, eof and woff files. With so many fonts no realistic way.

Hope you don't mean you trying to install all fonts to a WWB project Making websites it is understandable you limit your fonts to just use the ones you have in the project, you don't even install the whole family if the font's aren't used. To limit the weight and bandwidth when loading the page. You wrote you only install the woff font?? Not the woff2, it's highly recommended to use the woff2 when it's the latest and most modern.

[sieweb]

Did you install the font before adding it via @font-face?

Yes

you don't even install the whole family if the font's aren't used

I had the hope that WWB is that intelligent only to upload the fonts that are in use.
Local install give the chance to have a look what I want.
Till now I am rather puristic and only use the standard Websafe fonts, it is just a try (and error?).

horst

[Pablo]

WWB will only upload font files that are used by your project.
Local install is required otherwise Windows cannot display the font.

[sieweb]

Hi Pablo, this is what I was hoping for.
But nevertheless due to the local install of a font family I have to use 'Webfont Manager' for every single font?
Will it be possible to specify a folder where WWB will look automatically for a coresponding webfont if a font is selected?
horst

[Pablo]

I am not sure if I understand you correctly.

But there are multiple options:
1. use web safe fonts only, no action required
or
2. use google fonts, install the font via the Google Font Manager.
or
3. Automatically use @font-face for unknown fonts
or
4. manually configure web fonts: install the font in windows and set the font via the font-face settings.

I do not think it's a good idea to mix different modes.

[sieweb]

4. manually configure web fonts: install the font in windows and set the font via the font-face settings.

That is the way I would prefer as I have lots of webfonts at my SSD. But I do have to set for every single font manually. Why not automatically? If I select a font via the normal font dialog let WWB automatically have a look if there is a coresponding Webfont in the specified folder.
The luxery version would be that WWB has an option Websafe fonts & local saved Webfonts for the font dialog.
...
But at the moment I will stay with the Websafe fonts only option.
horst

[Bluesman]

But at the moment I will stay with the Websafe fonts only option.

Just using the Websafe fonts will make your design very limited I suggest you use a font managing software depending on the amount of fonts you have. I use one so I only have to have Windows standard fonts installed in Windows. Then I have a font setting for each project to activate just when working with it. Otherwise there's going to be too many activated fonts in the OS.
So just activate the fonts you using with the specific WWB project and install them in that project.

[sieweb]

Hi Bluesman,

Just using the Websafe fonts will make your design very limited

I just try to find out whether I prefer to be limited in font choices when it comes to text to be read. The simpler the better.
When it comes to text in graphics, there are no limits anyway.
horst