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---
title: "Using a Custom Font with Hugo"
date: 2024-04-28
# lastmod: 2024-04-23
lastmod: "2024-05-01T13:29:30Z"
description: "Installing a custom font on a Hugo site, and taking steps to protect the paid font files from unauthorized distribution. Plus a brief exploration of a pair of storage CDNs, and using Tailscale in a GitHub Actions workflow."
featured: false
toc: true
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ And that would be the end of things if I could expect that everyone who visited
That provides a few more options to fall back to if the preferred font isn't available. But let's see about making that font available.
#### Hosted Locally
I can use a `@font-face` rule to tell the browser how to find the `.woff2`/`.woff` files for my preferred web font, and I could just set the `src: url` parameter to point to a local path in my Hugo environment:
I can use a `@font-face` rule to tell the browser how to find the `.woff2` file for my preferred web font, and I could just set the `src: url` parameter to point to a local path in my Hugo environment:
```css
/* load preferred font */
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src: local('Berkeley Mono'),
/* otherwise look at these paths */
url('/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff') format('woff')
}
```
{{% notice note "WOFF2 vs WOFF(1)" %}}
A previous version of this post also included the `.woff` file in addition to `.woff2`. A kind reader let me know that [basically everything](https://caniuse.com/?search=woff2) supports `.woff2`, and since `.woff2` offers much better compression than first-generation `.woff` there *really* isn't any reason to offer a font in `.woff` format in this modern age. I can just offer `.woff2` on its own.
I've updated this post, my CSS, and the contents of my CDN storage accordingly.
{{% /notice %}}
And that would work just fine... but it *would* require storing those web font files in the (public) [GitHub repo](https://github.com/jbowdre/runtimeterror) which powers my site, and I'd rather not store any paid font files there.
So instead, I opted to try using a [Content Delivery Network (CDN)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network) to host the font files. This would allow for some degree of access control, help me learn more about a web technology I hadn't played with much, and make use of a cool `cdn.*` subdomain in the process.
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src: local('Berkeley Mono'),
url('/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff2') format('woff2'), /* [tl! --] */
url('https://cdn.runtimeterror.dev/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff2') format('woff2'), /* [tl! ++] */
url('/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff') format('woff') /* [tl! --] */
url('https://cdn.runtimeterror.dev/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff') format('woff') /* [tl! ++] */
}
```
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font-display: fallback;
src: local('Berkeley Mono'),
url('https://cdn.runtimeterror.dev/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('https://cdn.runtimeterror.dev/fonts/BerkeleyMono.woff') format('woff')
}
```