Using custom fonts
The Magento application contains a set of built-in fonts, but you can easily include custom fonts. This topic describes how to include a locally stored custom font in your Magento theme.
If you are new to Magento theme development, see Create a theme to get familiar with the basics.
To ensure the stability of your customizations and prevent upgrades from overwriting your customizations, do not change the default Magento theme files. You must include custom fonts in the your theme’s stylesheet.
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Add font files to your local theme directory. For example,
app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/web/fonts
.To add external fonts, add font references to the page configuration file as described in Include static resources (JavaScript, CSS, fonts).
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If you build a theme using the Magento UI library, declare the custom font by adding the
.lib-font-face
mixin to theapp/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/web/css/source/_typography.less
file:.lib-font-face( @family-name:'<custom_font_name>', @font-path: '@{baseDir}fonts/<path_to_font_file>', @font-weight: <font_weight>, @font-style: <font_style>, @font-display: <auto|block|fallback|optional|swap> );
Where:
@{baseDir}
stands for theapp/design/frontend/<you_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/web
directory.<path_to_font_file>
includes the font file name, but without the extension. For example,@font-path: '@{baseDir}fonts/Luma-Icons'
for the font stored inweb/fonts/Luma-Icons.woff
.
The mixin generates the CSS, which includes the font. The following example shows how to generate CSS for the Open Sans font in the Blank theme:
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@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; src: url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.eot'); src: url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.woff2') format('woff2'), url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.woff') format('woff'), url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.ttf') format('truetype'), url('../fonts/opensans/light/opensans-300.svg#Open Sans') format('svg'); font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-display: swap; }
@font-format
is optional. If you need to specify a format, enclose it in single quotes. For example,@font-format: 'ttf'
for TrueType Fonts. The available types are: “woff”, “woff2”, “ttf”, “eot”, “otf”, and “svg”.lib-font-face( @family-name:'<custom_font_name>', @font-path: '@{baseDir}fonts/<path_to_font_file>', @font-format: '<ttf|woff|woff2|eot|otf|svg>', @font-weight: <font_weight>, @font-style: <font_style>, @font-display: <auto|block|fallback|optional|swap> );
@font-display: swap
is declared by default for Magento Blank theme inapp/design/frontend/Magento/blank/web/css/source/_typography.less
.Fallback web fonts that are used by default in Magento are located in
lib/web/css/source/lib/variables/_typography.less
.For more information about font-face, refer to this article Font-face.
<font>
head type
A <font>
node is added to HTML <head>
type for layout in lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/head.xsd
. All resources added with <font>
node will be downloaded with preload
html attribute.
Overview of Magento’s Icon CSS
In addition to including custom fonts in your Magento Blank theme, you also can include custom fonts for any icons in the Blank theme. The icon font files for the Magento Blank theme are located in the lib/web/fonts/Blank-Theme-Icons
directory. The lib/web/css/source/lib/variables/_typography.less
file defines the font icon path and name for the icons and the web/css/source/_icons.less
file uses these files to define the icon font face itself, which should be used in all CSS declarations.
The Unicode characters that correspond to the correct font glyphs for each icon are defined in the following lib/web/css/source/lib/variables/_icons.less
file.
By calling the lib-icon-font
mixin, you can apply the icon font and character variables throughout the theme LESS code.
For Example:
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.icon-calendar {
.lib-icon-font(
@icon-calendar,
@_icon-font-size: 28px
);
}
See the Magento UI library for an icon list and implementation.
To customize a font you import, consider using IcoMoon. To override Luma or Blank theme icon fonts, change the font path in the _theme.less
file. For example:
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// Fonts
@icons__font-path: '@{baseDir}fonts/Theme-Icons'; // Add you fonts in your-theme/web/fonts
@icons__font-name: 'Theme-Icons';
With uploaded icons from IcoMoon, a “404 error woff2
file icon not found” may occur in the console. This means the woff2
file is missing from the IcoMoon package. You just need copy the woff
file to woff2
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If your theme does not use the Magento UI library, include the font in your theme’s CSS files using the @font-face
CSS rule.