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vincent-au
Adept
12 years ago

Typekit Fonts?

Hi,   I'm trying to implement a typekit font (Proxima Nova) in my community, which is currently on staging.  I've added the staging URL to the Typekit whitelist and pasted in the following code int...
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    cblown
    12 years ago

    Hi Vincent

     

    Using the Inspect Element function in Chrome you should be able to confirm the font face is loading from typekit (under resources tab) correctly and if so tweak the CSS font-family property on a heading to include Proxima Nova or what Typekit suggests for that font-family. 

     

    I'd guess that adding the font-family to the theme skin in Studio isn't taking effect as you may have inherited CSS from another / built in theme. 

     

     

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cblown
Boss

Hi Vincent

 

Using the Inspect Element function in Chrome you should be able to confirm the font face is loading from typekit (under resources tab) correctly and if so tweak the CSS font-family property on a heading to include Proxima Nova or what Typekit suggests for that font-family. 

 

I'd guess that adding the font-family to the theme skin in Studio isn't taking effect as you may have inherited CSS from another / built in theme. 

 

 

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vincent-au
Adept
12 years ago
Hi Chris... you're right about the built/in theme overriding it. A test skin based on the "base" loads the font, but one based on any other core font doesn't -- even if i add in css to the skin to define the fonts.

Thanks!