Add custom fonts to your app

Martin

Here are the steps:

put your fonts in a directory of choice eg: ./src/themes/my/cool/fonts/…
declare your font in ./scr/themes/app.variables.styl. This is also the place where your can modify other parts of your theme. (or in app.ios.styl, app.mat.styl, if you have platform specific ideas)
Also notice the stylus syntax! (more over here http://stylus-lang.com/)
reference your font with css in a vue component <style>…</style>
when doing “quasar dev”, webpack should list your font after bundling.
that’s all

rstoenescu

Thank you for adding this tip here for all Quasar dev! And nice ending screenshot

rashidnk

it does not work for me

i copied font file to themes/fonts

//app.variables.styl
@font-face
font-family myfont
src url(fonts/Chilanka-Regular.ttf)

//Index.vue
<style>
.myclass {
font-family: myfont;
font-size: 30px
}
</style>

whe use my class to an element, the font does not change

Quasar CLI v0.6.2
App running on Quasar v0.13.10

Martin

This was caused by a typo, wasn’t it?

arjanski

@Martin Thanks a lot! Do you know if this would also work out-of-the-box with other font files such as .woff or .otf?

arjanski

Answered the question myself: it works indeed! No other webpack configuration neccessary, at least for .woff.

venkyvb

Hi: Was trying this out, however, this seems to give a build error. This is what I have done:

I copied the fonts over to /themes/fonts/OpenSans.ttf

in the common.variables.styl file I have aaded the following:

@font-face
  font-family OpenSans
  src url(fonts/OpenSans.ttf)

During the build I get the following error:

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 2 errors                                                                                             11:07:04

This relative module was not found:

* ./fonts/OpenSans.ttf in ./node_modules/css-loader??ref--12-1!./node_modules/postcss-loader/lib??ref--12-2!./node_modules/stylus-loader??re
f--12-3!./.quasar/app.styl, ./node_modules/css-loader??ref--12-1!./node_modules/postcss-loader/lib??ref--12-2!./node_modules/stylus-loader??
ref--12-3!./src/pages/docs-input.styl

Quasar CLI v0.15.14
Quasar version is 0.17

israel965

@venkyvb must be

@font-face
  font-family OpenSans
  src url(/fonts/OpenSans.ttf)

It works fine with the dev command, but when I execute the build command, the fonts stop working . Any idea @rstoenescu?

terrybradshaw

@israel965 I ran into the same problem. I finally got the fonts working in “build” distros by providing relative paths from quasar/.quasar

So instead of src url(/fonts/OpenSans.ttf)
try src url(../src/css/themes/fonts/OpenSans.ttf)
obviously, customize the path to your font files, but keep them relative, not absolute

I will note this is probably only a good idea for local apps such as electron or mobile apps. Webpack will rename font files, so that cached versions of the fonts cannot be used, which, for a web site, will slow down time to load the initial page significantly.

kosirm

Thanks @Martin for posting this simple guide. I use this nice font installer https://github.com/lordgiotto/google-font-installer so using google fonts in QUasar is a breeze. Besides this I use excellent AI based https://fontjoy.com/ for font pairing, because I’m pretty talentless for font pairing
I think it is the same guy who stands behind http://colormind.io/ which is also an excellent AI based color palette generator.