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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Web Fonts with @font-face

Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points
Posted by Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points

Font not changing

Hi there I cant get the browser to update to the abolition regular font. I checked the spelling of the code to be exactly like Guils code and it is. I also tried to change it to see if it would work but nothing happened.

I noticed that the src are highlighted in red, not sure if that may be the error? Even deleting one src and separate with a coma the 4 url the remaining src is still highlighted.

Thanks a lot for your help.

3 Answers

Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,246 Points
Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,246 Points

You're using backticks (`) around your chosen font name in both the @font-face and the h1, h2 selector. Change these to either single or double quotes and you should see the changed font. The video you're referring to is using single quotes.

Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points
Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points

Thank you Joel, you got it right and it works fine now!

Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
5,094 Points
Podrig Leoghain
Podrig Leoghain
5,094 Points

Post your code using the 'Markdown Cheatsheet' please.

Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points
Emilio Magris
Emilio Magris
3,110 Points

Hi Podrig This is the original code from the video.

/* Web Fonts -------------------- */

@font-face {
  font-family: `Abolition Regular`;
  src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot');
  src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
       url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
       url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
}  

/* Base Styles -------------------- */

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  color: #878787;
  margin: 0;
  font: 1em/1.5 "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}

h1,
h2 {
  font-family: `Abolition Regular`, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}