Question

I’m currently working on a little Project in which I’d like to use webfonts via @fontface.

I implemented the font’s like this:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'CardoRegular';
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.svg#CardoRegular') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

Now as you have probably experienced Chrome has problems displaying these fonts in a smooth way.

After some searching I found a solution which seem to work: You simply move this part of the css:

    url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.svg#CardoRegular') format('svg');

So you end up with this:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'CardoRegular';
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.svg#CardoRegular') format('svg'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

Now Chrome renders the Fonts in a smooth way, which is great.

BUT:

For some reason this SOMETIMES breaks the Layout. About each third time I load the page I’ll get something like this:

Everything is moved to the left. Longer texts are breaking out of their containers. Looks really strange.

**Has anyone experienced this problem before?

I would be happy to get advice on this.**

Feel free to take a look for yourself:
View Fireflycovers.com online

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I have had this exact issue happen to a website of my own.

Instead of putting the svg at the top, keep the original formatting but add a media query as shown below. This will make chrome render the fonts perfectly and fixes the layout breaking.

@font-face {
   font-family: 'CardoRegular';
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.svg#CardoRegular') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
    @font-face {
        font-family: 'CardoRegular';
        src: url('../fonts/Cardo104s-webfont.svg#CardoRegular') format('svg');

    }
}