9Fonts & web fonts

This section discusses everything you need to know about getting fonts onto a website. The next chapter discusses how to make the fonts responsive and sets the basic typographical properties needed to make a web site presentable.

In this section I cover how to convert fonts to WOFF^†1 files for deployment within the individual pages of the website. I also cover the use of open source fonts, downloading them as, or converting them to, WOFF files for direct use in web pages.

To summarise — just in case this section is not of interest for you (if you are not using your own fonts for example), I cover the following:

1. Web fonts and font formats

2. The conversion of the Equity (and other) fonts to WOFF files

3. Using WOFF files with CSS

4. Giving fonts a usable name in CSS

5. Assigning fonts to a CSS selector

6. The distinction between Equity and open source fonts within this website

7. The downloading and use of open source fonts

8. My icon and index fonts