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Adding in web fonts #1415

Closed MarkWS closed 9 years ago

MarkWS commented 9 years ago

We have been asked if we can use this font for some features listed on the map. https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto Does anyone know if MBS allows an outside font call? If so please help. Thanks, Mark

wboykinm commented 9 years ago

@MarkWS We've been using custom fonts via static .otf files. I see that Google makes Roboto .ttf files available here, and they should work as well. Basically place them in the projectname.tm2/fonts/ folder and then they'll be packaged and served along with the rest of the style.They've got some good documentation on this

MarkWS commented 9 years ago

this will work for now. this would be a nice feature to have as we have a client that pays for fonts on Fonts.com and thats tracked by a URL and a user key. but for now this will work. Thanks Bill.

wboykinm commented 9 years ago

:+1:

ajashton commented 9 years ago

this would be a nice feature to have as we have a client that pays for fonts on Fonts.com and thats tracked by a URL and a user key

Unfortunately web font licensing and distribution systems are not compatible with Mapbox Studio, which is much more comparible to Photoshop than HTML & CSS as far as font rendering is concerned. Web fonts are licensed to be temporarily stored on the computer of the person viewing the website, but custom fonts for Studio styles need to be stored on the servers that are generating the tile images.