How do I use a custom font in an SVG image on my site?

by

I created a custom Facebook icon using Inkscape and saved it as an svg. It uses the same font as the title of my page, which uses the font “ubuntutitling-bold-webfont”, which I have referenced as a .woff in a CSS file. The title functions, but the svg does not – it displays the “f” in some sort default font. The font file is located at ../fonts/ubuntutitling-bold-webfont.woff in relativity to the CSS and image file, and at fonts/ubuntutitling-bold-webfont.woff in relativity to the web page.

I fount How do I embed Google Web Fonts into an SVG?, but I am a bit confused on how to apply the code to the SVG, if I even need to. Can the SVG use the .woff font referenced in the CSS file? Was the way I manually changed the font inside the SVG file correct?

Here is the code for the SVG:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->

<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   width="80"
   height="80"
   id="svg2"
   version="1.1"
   inkscape:version="0.48.3.1 r9886"
   sodipodi:docname="New document 1">
  <defs
     id="defs4" />
  <sodipodi:namedview
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="1"
     inkscape:cx="26.573808"
     inkscape:cy="42.478414"
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
     showgrid="false"
     fit-margin-top="0"
     fit-margin-left="0"
     fit-margin-right="0"
     fit-margin-bottom="0"
     inkscape:window-width="1619"
     inkscape:window-height="611"
     inkscape:window-x="165"
     inkscape:window-y="301"
     inkscape:window-maximized="0" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata7">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
        <dc:title></dc:title>
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g
     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
     id="layer1"
     transform="translate(0.75006053,-981.36219)">
    <rect
       style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:10;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0"
       id="rect2987"
       width="70"
       height="70"
       x="4.2499394"
       y="986.36218"
       rx="10"
       ry="10" />
    <text
       xml:space="preserve"
       style="font-size:109.44319916px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:1;stroke:#fffffe;stroke-width:2.73607969;stroke-opacity:1;font-family:ubuntutitling-bold-webfont';-inkscape-font-specification:ubuntutitling-bold-webfont'"
       x="25.989071"
       y="1096.0118"
       id="text3757"
       sodipodi:linespacing="125%"
       transform="scale(1.0381556,0.96324674)"><tspan
         sodipodi:role="line"
         id="tspan3759"
         x="25.989071"
         y="1096.0118"
         style="stroke-width:2.73607969">f</tspan></text>
  </g>
</svg>

Thank you in advance.

Answer

You need to put CSS in the defs section.
Something like:

<defs>
  <style type="text/css">
    @font-face {
      font-family: Delicious;
      src: url('../fonts/font.woff');
    }
  </style>
</defs>

Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Joe , Answer Author : leighman

Leave a Comment