# Trouble with customizing font style in the Academic theme

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719>\
**Category:** Using Themes\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719 "2020-02-27T20:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![sortsofecon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@sortsofecon](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/sortsofecon)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719/1 "2020-02-27T20:59:07Z")

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Oops, I suddenly found it can work in Google Chrome! But it doesn’t work in firefox.

Hi, I confirmed that I have carefully read the instruction provided by [https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/customization/](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/customization/)

I have copied a font.toml from `themes/academic/data/fonts` to `data/fonts` and set `font = "my_font_set"` in `config/_default/params.toml`

Hereby is the syntax I used in my `my_font_set.toml`:

```auto
# Font style metadata
name = "my_font_set"

# Optional Google font URL
google_fonts = "Titillium+Web:400,400i,700 Ubuntu:400,500,700"

# Font families
heading_font = "Ubuntu"
body_font = "Titillium Web"
nav_font = "Titillium Web"
mono_font = "Titillium Web"

```

Who can tell me why it doesn’t work? I know sometimes a few featured functions do not work in the local server, but I use Netlify and the customized font family doesn’t work in my Netlify website as well.

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**Author:** ![pointyfar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/pointyfar/32/5797_2.png) [@pointyfar](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pointyfar)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719/2 "2020-02-28T05:26:59Z")

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Hi there,

You might have a better chance at getting help by asking the [theme maintainer directly](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/issues).

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719/5 "2020-02-28T08:22:47Z")

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@pointyfar

The author of the Academic Theme points its users to this forum for [_help_](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/blame/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug-report.md#L14)

We had a discussion about it [over here](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/thoughts-on-academic-theme-linking-to-these-support-forums/20186) but we didn’t exactly get far.

The only way to deal with an [infinite loop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop) is to “pull the plug”:

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/trouble-with-customizing-font-style-in-the-academic-theme/23719/6 "2020-02-28T16:00:04Z")

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