I was trying the newly released Gavick framework and it looks promising. I saw on the features list that either Google fonts or custom fonts can be used. How do we add/use custom fonts? All I can see are the fields to select Google fonts. Thank you for any help!

    Hi ckubs,

    #1. add web font folder
    Copy your web font folder to: templates/gk_template/media/fonts/.

    #2: embed font
    Now go to your primary stylesheet (in this case templates/gk_template/media/css/custom.css (if it doesn’t exist you can create one)) and add the following CSS.

    @font-face {
  font-family: 'sunset_boulevard';
  src: url('../fonts/sunset_boulevard/SunsetBoulevard-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/sunset_boulevard/SunsetBoulevard-Regular.woff') format('woff');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

    if you want to apply it on the body, you can just write the following CSS to your stylesheet.

    body {
    font-family: sunset_boulevard !important;
}

        dominic So, this is a workaround to make framework settings redundant.

        I thought, being newly developed, that I could use my own hosted fonts, also, but the documentation wasn't ready to understand how.

            Hi ckubs,
            We are discussing adding the custom font feature to GK Framework.
            Also, we have updated the custom font section of the document and will publish it as soon as possible.

                dominic Thank you! Using it for 2 days that seems to be the only major thing that's missing. 🙂 T4 - being though, a more elaborated - has the option to ujse self hosted fonts. Even the old Gavern framework has this option in a way like that

                    ckubs We will improve this font feature for GK framework. While we work on enhancing this functionality, we would like to provide you with guidance on how to add custom fonts to your site. Please refer to the following link for step-by-step instructions:: https://www.gavick.com/joomla-templates/gk-framework/install#gk-custom-font

                    If you have any specific features or items on your wishlist that you'd like to see integrated into the GK Framework, we would greatly appreciate it if you could share them with us.

                    Thank you!

                        saguaros apart from the usual stuff that everyone wants, like SEO optimisations, the only thing I can think of, that I look on my projects is WebP support. But I guess something like that has more to do with Joomla than Gavick. And third party extensions exist. I used this one. I'll need to test it's compatibility with the new framework. With the old one I don't think it worked.

                        Maybe, not being overwhelmingly packed with features, in a good way, one good feature would be compatibility with third party extensions. 🙂 And child theme or custom.css support for various customizations.

                          I will share with GK team for further consideration 🙂

                            4 months later

                            saguaros any update regarding custom fonts support? I know the issue is old and since then you updated the documentation page with a workaround for that. But, it would be better to have the option available in the framework admin. Not necesarily as on the T4 wich looks to be a more elaborated thing, but, at least to have them appear there to select them as on joomla's default Cassiopeia.

                                ckubs Hi

                                Unfortunately, there is still no news on this. I will let you know if there are updates for this feature 🙂

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