#Using an adobe font kit code
If your fonts were added to assets, add the following code with your font file names. If you are using a premium theme, check for a custom.css file instead. Step 2: Import font to stylesįind your file where all your theme styles are held. Here you need to upload your web font files.
Scroll down to the Assets folder and click " Add a new asset". Go to Online Store → Actions → Edit Code.
If you have the web font files, you want to head to your theme code. Let me walk you through the steps of adding font files and using Adobe fonts in your Shopify project.Ĭustom Fonts on Shopify Step 1: Add the font You don't need an app to add a custom font to Shopify. Make sure your font stack contains the same generic font family as your Typekit font and has a similar x-height to prevent a jarring user experience of falling back to a completely different font.You can find a more recent tutorial on my Luna Templates article This will disable loading of the Typekit fonts and ensures the browser will use the fallback fonts in your font stack. You can test your font fallback stack by commenting out the Typekit embed code and refreshing your page. Whichever of these strategies you use, an important thing to consider is choosing the right fallback fonts. This will force the browser to render your content using fallback fonts, and it will only load and show web fonts once all content has loaded. You can do this by embedding the Typekit JavaScript, but not calling Typekit.load() until your page has loaded, for example when the browser calls onload. Jordan Moore discusses this approach in detail in his post, “ Fallback Fonts on Mobile Devices.”Ī third option is to delay loading the fonts until all the other content of your website has loaded. You can do this by splitting your kit into two: one small kit with only the essential fonts, and a larger kit with the non-essential fonts. If your website only requires a small subset of your fonts, another approach is to only load the small subset first and then load additional fonts after the page has loaded. Remember to republish your kit to have the changes take effect. You can disable support for multiple mobile devices through the Mobile Settings tab in the Kit Settings option of the kit editor. In this case, the font specified in your CSS font fallback stack will be used (or the browser default, if no fallback is available). It may be worth disabling fonts for mobile devices if a large portion of your users are on slower mobile connections, however. Many developers will find that this combination allows Typekit to perform respectably on your mobile site. Fonts on Typekit are highly optimized for file size, and our Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures fonts are delivered worldwide as quickly as possible. You should first consider changing nothing at all. Perform the same network recording before and after making any changes to see whether there are significant performance gains.)
(A note on testing these suggestions: record the network performance of your site before making any changes so that performance problems are quantifiable and not just perceived. On the other hand, if it’s important that your website load as quickly as possible, and your users are primarily on mobile devices, it might be worth exploring options for either fully or partially disabling fonts for mobile devices. If you’re working within tight aesthetic guidelines and you know your audience mostly uses devices connected to WiFi or other fast networks, it’s probably best to use the same fonts for all display options. Which method you should choose depends on how people access your website or application. You have several options for working with fonts served to mobile devices. Strategies for using Typekit on mobile devices For now, however, we can offer a few options for you to try. In the future, it might be possible to detect a device on a low-bandwidth connection and intelligently load fonts and other assets (or choose not to load some at all). (The Network Information API is meant to fill this gap, but is currently only implemented in Firefox.) There is no easy way for a website to query the available bandwidth of a visitor’s connection and intelligently decide which resources to load. In fact, talking about “mobile devices” is a bit confusing: what we are really trying to do is enable, delay, or disable resources based on the bandwidth of the network connection. Unfortunately, there aren’t simple answers to these questions. How does an array of custom fonts weigh against the potential load times your users will see? Jenn Lukas recently raised some interesting questions over at The Nerdary, and got us thinking about this again. Ever since experimental support for Typekit web fonts came to the iPhone and iPad, developers have had another performance angle to consider.