Fonts and Having it Your Way

This is not a step by step or a how to article. It is a brief summary of what is needed to do anything you want with fonts. The origins of this article come from the need to embed special fonts in a web page and all the issues that arise.

• If you're using a Windows computer, search the internet for TTF fonts you want, check them out, play with them, etc.
• A great PlugIn to use in WordPress, but one needs to have tools to convert fonts to various formats (TTF, WOFF, WOFF, OTF, etc.): Custom Fonts (WordPress, Appearance, Custom Fonts)
  • A great tool for converting and manipulating fonts: Font Forge
    • File, Generate: To select different formats
    • Element, Font Info: To change various meta information
    • It will walk you through steps / give hints if settings need to be changed for specific formats
  • A great tool if a TTF Font's "Font Embedability" needs to be changed (from say "Restricted" to "Editable" (which can be viewed by right clicking a TTF File, Details Tab): Embed.exe by Tom 7
  • A great tool for converting a TTF to an EOT font (hint, EOT is for Internet Explorer only, and since about version 9, IE can handle OFT and WOFF Fonts, so not a high need): https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
    • And there are any number of other online websites that will convert fonts: https://onlinefontconverter.com/, etc.
• A great PlugIn to use in WordPress that makes it easy to do everything in one place (but you have to pay for it): Use Any Font
• Which Font to Use (some tips here)?: https://creativemarket.com/blog/the-missing-guide-to-font-formats
  • In the end, WOFF and OTF are the top picks.