I can’t get my custom theme’s scss to load my fonts. My themes/theme/assets/sass/main.scss file: @font-face { font-family: "Title"; font-weight: 400; src: url("../fonts/Mohave-Regular.woff2") format("woff2"); } The above works, when I inspect the website, it’s trying to load the font but it…

So after studying tons of other themes (their scss, fonts, heads, etc.) that were doing EXACTLY the same thing that I was doing… I realized what I wasn’t doing. When you add local fonts to a LIVE rendered site, you actually need to restart it. I guess they get loaded into the resources, and then d…

[image] danniel3: themes/theme/assets/fonts/Mohave-Regular.woff2 Can’t look at my notes right now but if you place the font here, it should be accessible at /fonts/Mohave-Regular.woff2

Hey! @brunoamaral thanks for the answer. Did you get a chance to look at your notes? Neither assets nor static are working for me, both at “…/fonts/” nor at “/fonts/” Any other ideas?

Hi @jmooring , thanks for the link. I had a look through it, and while your answer works when I include the fonts in the site’s root static folder, it doesn’t seem to apply for the theme itself. I mentioned this in the original question. Maybe this is a Hugo limitation? I can’t store fonts within …

As always, it’s a lot easier to work through these questions when we have all the details. Can you share a link to the public repository for your project? See https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/requesting-help/9132 . Let us see your code Include a link to the source code repository of your project, be…

Sure @jmooring ! I thought I was providing enough context, but here is the theme I’m creating: GitHub - danniel3/danfolio: Minimalist Personal Portfolio Website for Hugo

Put them into static/assets/webfonts/webfontname and link with /assets/webfonts/webfontname. Don’t overthink it.

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