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Using Web Fonts |
This guide covers how to add web fonts to your Gatsby site.
Web fonts provide a variety of typography styling options for your site. Hosting your fonts within a Gatsby project increases your site’s speed by up to ~300 milliseconds on desktop and 1+ seconds on 3G connections.
This guide uses the Gatsby default starter.
Some examples of web font services include Google Fonts and Typekit Web Fonts.
The fastest way to get started using Google Fonts is by choosing a font from Fontsource.
This example shows how to set up the Open Sans font. If you have a different Google Font you want to use, you can find the corresponding package in NPM or the packages directory in the Fontsource repository.
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Run
npm install fontsource-open-sans
to download the necessary package files. -
Then within your app entry file or site component, import the font package. It is recommended you import it via the layout template (
layout.js
). However, importing via page component (index.js
), orgatsby-browser.js
are viable alternatives.
import "fontsource-open-sans" // Defaults to weight 400 with all styles included.
If you wish to select a particular weight or style, you may specify it by changing the import path.
import "fontsource-open-sans/500.css" // Weight 500 with all styles included.
import "fontsource-open-sans/900-normal.css" // Select either normal or italic.
Note: The range of supported weights and styles a font may support is shown in each package's README file.
- Once it's imported, you can reference the font name in a CSS stylesheet, CSS Module, or CSS-in-JS.
body {
font-family: "Open Sans";
}
You can add Typekit Web Fonts to your project by using the gatsby-plugin-web-font-loader and your Adobe Fonts project id. For example, this is how you can add Futura to your project.
First, install the Gatsby plugin with npm:
npm install --save gatsby-plugin-web-font-loader
Or with yarn:
yarn add gatsby-plugin-web-font-loader
Then, create an environment variable to store your Adobe Fonts project ID. (Make sure this file is in your .gitignore
file so your ID doesn't get committed!) For example, if your Adobe Fonts project ID is abcdefg
, your .env
file will look like this:
TYPEKIT_ID=abcdefg
Now you can add the gatsby-plugin-web-font-loader
plugin to your gatsby-config.js
file, located in your root directory. In your plugin configuration, pass in the environment variable you created.
require("dotenv").config()
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: "gatsby-plugin-web-font-loader",
options: {
typekit: {
id: process.env.TYPEKIT_ID,
},
},
},
],
}
Next, add the typeface name to the appropriate font-family
value in your CSS.
body {
color: hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.8);
// highlight-next-line
font-family: "Futura", georgia, serif;
font-weight: normal;
word-wrap: break-word;
font-kerning: normal;
}
- Check out the Using Google Fonts Gatsby recipe.
- Here's a great article on why it's important to keep your environment variables secret.