Importing fonts used to be pretty straightforward. With modern JavaScript focused projects and build tools it can be quite confusing. This is the approach that worked for my Gatsby project.
I wanted to add custom fonts to my Gatsby project, but a lot of resources online seemed outdated. Some suggested directly importing font files in your TypeScript or JavaScript files but that didn’t work for me.
I use styled-components for CSS, but createGlobalStyle wouldn’t work for me since I use object syntax.
import { createGlobalStyle } from "styled-components"createGlobalStyle({"@font-face": {// font 1},"@font-face": {// font 2 would override font 1// because the key is the same},})
I downloaded my fonts from Google Fonts and generated the .woff and .woff2 files with the Font Squirrel Webfont Generator.
I could have used the typeface-source-sans-pro package but I didn’t want any unused font definitions, so I briefly checked how the packages in the Typefaces repository worked and copied that. It turned out to just be a CSS file. Simple enough!
@font-face {font-family: "Source Sans Pro";font-style: normal;font-display: swap;font-weight: 400;src:local("Source Sans Pro Regular normal"),local("Source Sans Pro-Regularnormal"),url("./ssp-regular.woff2") format("woff2"),url("./ssp-regular.woff") format("woff");}@font-face {font-family: "Source Sans Pro";font-style: normal;font-display: swap;font-weight: 600;src:local("Source Sans Pro SemiBold normal"),local("Source Sans Pro-SemiBoldnormal"),url("./ssp-semibold.woff2") format("woff2"),url("ssp-semibold.woff") format("woff");}
I then imported it in my gatsby-browser.js. This will create a new <link> tag in your <head>.
// gatsby-browser.jsimport "./src/assets/fonts/index.css"
After importing the CSS file I was able to use the fonts anywhere in my CSS like my typography.js config or my Styled Components.
const MyComponent = styled.div({fontFamily: `'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif`,})
That’s it! I hope this helped you in any way.