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Asked: 2026-06-07T05:36:16+00:00

I was wondering if it’s possible to, when using @font-face, have a fallback setup

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I was wondering if it’s possible to, when using @font-face, have a fallback setup so that if the text on my page contains characters that are not accounted for within the font (Japanese characters for example), only those characters are presented in a basic font and every other character remains as the custom font?

I’m imagining that potentially there’d be a mix of two fonts within one paragraph on occasion.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you described is the default behaviour of a browser – it should naturally fall back to basic font for missing characters.

    However, sometimes custom fonts use blank characters, in that case you can try using the unicode-range

    For example:

    @font-face {
    font-family: BBCBengali;
    src: url(fonts/BBCBengali.ttf) format("opentype");
    unicode-range: U+00-FF;
}

    Taken from this interesting article: Creating Custom Font Stacks with Unicode-Range

    Unfortunatelly there are browser support issues.

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