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Posted by Shafeeq Ahmed
Shafeeq Ahmed
6,058 Points

@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');

In the code above: Why the format of the web font is specified with the keyword format. from line 3

1 Answer

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

Perhaps Guil Hernandez can drop in and clarify, but the format('some format') syntax seems to be optional. As far as I know, the below code is valid:

font-family: 'Abolition Regular';
  src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot');
  src: url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix'),
       url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.woff'),
       url('../fonts/abolition-regular-webfont.ttf');
Shafeeq Ahmed
Shafeeq Ahmed
6,058 Points

THanks rydvim