@font-face: a little tricky business

On the surface, web fonts are pretty easy, but in reality, they get complicated when we want them to work in all modern browsers. Some browsers use OTF, others use WOFF, and some use EOT, RTF, and SVG. Let's go over the full setup for making a web font work using the @font-face property.

Making it work in all browsers

If we wanted to make this work in all browsers in the most optimal fashion, we need to provide quite a bit extra. Here's a snippet from the popular blog, CSS Tricks, that describes the ideal @font-face at-rule. (Using @font-face by Chris Coyier of CSS-tricks.com, August 25, 2016, https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/.)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'MyWebFont';
  src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
  src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded- 
  opentype'), /* IE6-   
  IE8 */
  url('webfont.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern 
  Browsers */
  url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Pretty Modern   
  Browsers...