Adding fonts.com fonts?

I know Google fonts and Typekit are supported.

Client already has a myfonts.com account. Much like fonts.com, they distribute a bunch of files like this:

That’s a ton of files. And the filenames don’t indicate which weight each is, so quite a pain to try to step through this in the “custom font files” section of Newspaper’s settings.

Any tips on how to use these (and other) third party fonts distributed with these obfuscated names?

Yeah, I know that, that’s why I noted it’s a real pain to add that many fonts, especially when they are named like that. Is there an easier way? fonts.com, myfonts.com and others all distribute fonts like this (with obfuscated filenames), being able to import them in one or two steps is preferable to (literally) repeating the “custom font addition” process 50 times (which also means looking up what font, style and weight each is due to the obfuscation).

Try the tutorials on font squirrel which describe simple ways to load custom font libs. Theme cannot import libs… There is no script to do that in any theme ive seen the past decade. You basically add the font loading to your style sheet and replace the default font calls.

Bummer. If I add it outside the theme, then I lose the ability to switch fonts (well, I don’t, but the client does). The client specifically will be needing to mix normal weight and a few other weights within posts.

Another question. I have 9 fonts. The custom font screen allows me to add only 3. How do I add the additional 6 fonts I need?

If it were me I would wait for TagDiv to possibly point you at the font loader php file where you could add in all those fonts with help of a devoloper if you would not be able to, which would add the fonts “hard coded” into the includes file, so that those fonts are loaded as menu options, and then hard code the font calls into the style.css to “always load” that family.

This way you “load the family” manually, but can select font “assignments” from the theme panel which are then applied to the specific classes.

Seems like that might work.

Or, hack the function file to give more font import locations from 3 to 9.

I know this is old, but there seems to be a bug somewhere here. I moved the site and while I was able to update all the URLs for attachments and such, I’m running into a lot of problems getting the custom font urls changed.

I’ve tried the following:

– Going to the theme panel, then the custom fonts panel, and changing the font URLs. Changes appear to be successfully saved, but on review of the page source and the options in the db, the old URL to the fonts is still there.

– Going to the database and manually editing the field with the Newspaper settings (changing all references to the old URL to the new URL). After this, the theme reverted to defaults, as if it was unable to parse the options.

– Using the Export function, base64 decoding that file, again, search and replace on the URL, base64 encoding and importing back into Newspaper. Same effect as the database edit, theme reverted to defaults.

What other options to alter this?

I’m still on Newspaper6, I have no interest in starting over with Newspaper7, nor does the client.