Custom Fonts in Android PhoneGap

I made it work after doing the following steps:

-Put your CSS in a file, for example my_css.css:

@font-face {
    font-family: "customfont";
    src: url("./fonts/arial.ttf") format("opentype");   
        /* Make sure you defined the correct path, which is related to
            the location of your file `my_css.css` */ 
    }
    body {
        font-family: "customfont";
        font-size:30px;
    }

-Reference your CSS file my_css.css in your HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12454681/./path_to_your_css/my_css.css" />


Pay attention to the definition of your paths!

For example, let’s say you have the following directory structure:

  • www

    • your_html.html

    • css

      • my_css.css
    • fonts

      • arial.ttf

Then, you would have:

@font-face {
    font-family: "customfont";
    src: url("../fonts/arial.ttf") format("opentype");   
        /* Make sure you defined the correct path, which is related to
            the location of your file `my_css.css` */ 
    }
    body {
        font-family: "customfont";
        font-size:30px;
    }

and:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12454681/./css/my_css.css" />


Note: if you use jQuery Mobile, the solution may not work (jQuery Mobile will “interfere” with the css…).

So, you may try to impose your style by using the style attribute.

Eg:

<body>
    <h>Custom Fonts</h>
    <div style="font-family: 'customfont';">This is for sample</div>
</body>

One drawback is that it seems that the style cannot be applyied on body

So, if you want to apply the font to the whole page, you may try something like this:

<body>

    <!-- ADD ADDITIONAL DIV WHICH WILL IMPOSE STYLE -->
    <div style="font-family: 'customfont';">

        <h>Custom Fonts</h>
        <div >This is for sample</div>

    </div>

</body>

Hope this will work for you too. Let me know about your results.

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