Custom Fonts in Android PhoneGap

I tried to make custom fonts for my application. For that, I wrote this code in my html file:

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
        @font-face {
            font-family: centurySchoolbook;
            src: url(/fonts/arial.ttf);
        }
       body {
           font-family: centurySchoolbook;
           font-size:30px;
       }
</style>

In my Html Body:

<body onload="init();">
<h>Custom Fonts</h>
    <div>This is for sample</div>

</body>

But, these styles are not applied to my html body.. Any help to solve this..??

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="./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="./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.

Below works like charm for custom font with jQueryMobile and Phonegap:

@font-face {
font-family: "Lato-Reg";
src: url("../resources/Fonts/Lato-Reg.ttf") format("opentype");   
    /* Make sure you defined the correct path, which is related to
        the location of your file `my_css.css` */ 
}

 body *{
margin: 0;
-webkit-touch-callout: none;                /* prevent callout to copy image, etc when tap to hold */
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;             /* prevent webkit from resizing text to fit */
-webkit-user-select: none;                  /* prevent copy paste, to allow, change 'none' to 'text' */

font-family: "Lato-Lig" !important;
font-weight: normal !important;

 }

I also faced the same problem. I put my css file in the css folder. I put the ttf file in just the www folder and it didn't work properly, so I moved my ttf file into the css folder. Here is my code:

@font-face
{
font-family: CustomArial;
src: url('arial.ttf'); 
}

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed, 
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, 
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
    font-family: CustomArial;
}

If you are using jquery mobile, you have to override the font like:

.ui-bar-a, .ui-bar-a input, .ui-bar-a select, .ui-bar-a textarea, .ui-bar-a button {
    font-family: CustomArial !important;
}

You have to override the font-family in your css for whatever jquery mobile class having font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; to

font-family:CustomArial !important;

Now it will work. You can try like this, may be its useful for you.

here your can find the .ttf the google fonts : https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

this screenshot should help

in your .css file

@font-face {
 font-family: 'Open Sans';
 src: url('../font/OpenSans-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
 font-weight: 400;
}

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