Self Hosted Text...WOFF only is enough or EOT also ?

[Robin50]

Hi,

When trying to self host my own font. After downloading from the web open source font, i have 2 files, one is EOT and the other is WOFF.

Is it neccesary to upload both or just one of these is enough ?

Regards

Robin

[Günter Heißenbüttel]

You don’t need only EOT or WOFF, you need ALL(!) web font files, which are:

• the correct(!) TrueType/OpenType font for your machine. This font has to be the one, which is delivered with your web font package and which has to be installed on your machine. Attention: A imilar or equally named other font won’t work!
• the .woff font
• the .eot font
• the .svg font isn’t really necessary, because it isn’t supported by many browserts.

Without the correct font family installed correctly on your machine/in Muse, self hosted web fonts won’t work!

You may want to have a look at this video of the former product manager of Muse, Dani Beaumont: https://helpx.adobe.com/muse/how-to/add-self-hosted-web-fonts.html 

[Nancy OShea]

To cover all devices and browsers, including older mobile phones, you should have a font kit with EOT, TTF, SVG and WOFF + web-safe font-family fallbacks just in case. 

Increasingly, more web designers are using Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) or Google web fonts instead of hosting their own.

• https://fonts.adobe.com/
• https://fonts.google.com/