Custom Font Sometimes Renders in Italics in Ie8/Ie7

Custom font sometimes renders in italics in IE8 / IE7

For each of your @font-face font-family names, create a custom name instead.

Example:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'DINnormal';
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb.eot');
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('fonts/DINWeb.woff') format('woff');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'DINbold';
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-Bold.eot');
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-Bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('fonts/DINWeb-Bold.woff') format('woff');
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'DINitalic';
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-Ita.eot');
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-Ita.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('fonts/DINWeb-Ita.woff') format('woff');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: italic;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'DINboldItalic';
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-BoldIta.eot');
    src: url('fonts/DINWeb-BoldIta.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('fonts/DINWeb-BoldIta.woff') format('woff');
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}

After those CSS rules are defined, then you can include specific CSS rule:

li {
  font: 18px/27px 'DINnormal', Arial, sans-serif;
}

IE8 Renders font weights randomly

I've had the same issue when using multiple weights and styles of a single font in IE8. Typekit has an article that explains this bug in IE8 and below: Using multiple weights and styles

According to them:

"Internet Explorer 6, 7, & 8 load a maximum of four weights per family. Additionally, using two closely-related weights (e.g., 400 and 500) may result in only one weight loading correctly."

Using variation specific seems to be the way to solve this. Like so (snippet from a Myfonts.com web font kit):

@font-face {
  font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro-DemiIt'; /* Demibold Italic */
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
  src: url('webfonts/25A826_1_0.eot');
  src: url('webfonts/25A826_1_0.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),url('webfonts/25A826_1_0.woff') format('woff'),url('webfonts/25A826_1_0.ttf') format('truetype');
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro-BoldIt'; /* Bold Italic */
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: url('webfonts/25A826_6_0.eot');
  src: url('webfonts/25A826_6_0.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),url('webfonts/25A826_6_0.woff') format('woff'),url('webfonts/25A826_6_0.ttf') format('truetype');
}

 

.someclass {
  font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro-DemiIt'; /* Demibold Italic */
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
}
.otherclass {
  font-family: 'AvenirNextLTPro-BoldIt'; /* Bold Italic */
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
}

Can't get @font-face with Internet Explorer 8

Remove the IE Conditional and put this in your CSS

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

}

also use '...' for custom font-face fonts like so

h1 ul li {
  font: 18px/27px 'cherokee', Arial, sans-serif;
}

Also check whether your paths are set correctly.

Embedding font stops italics from working, how was it working initially?

The browser simply fakes bold or italic styles of a font. If the actual font-family does not include a bold or italic font, but the text is styled as bold or italic, then the browser sort of creates that style for us to see.

For more detail on this: https://alistapart.com/article/say-no-to-faux-bold

Webfonts used within font fallback in IE8

I'm using a stripped down version of your code (for the sake of clarity alone - there's nothing wrong with it) and testing in lots of browsers (with the webfont being STIX, like you, not that I'm aware if this plays a role), and I'm seeing some odd behaviour: font fallback in most browsers does work, but only when excluding all italic variants of fonts (be they italic or bolditalic).

I.e. this works (100% of the time), with browsers falling back to STIX for those chars not in arial:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'stix';
    src: url('stixgeneral-webfont.eot');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'stix';
    src: url('stixgeneralbol-webfont.eot');
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: normal;
}
body {font-family: arial, stix, sans-serif;}

… but this does not work 100% of the time (although sometimes it does display the chars!):

@font-face {
    font-family: 'stix';
    src: url('stixgeneral-webfont.eot');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'stix';
    src: url('stixgeneralitalic-webfont.eot'); /* note - italic font variant */
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: italic;
}
body {font-family: arial, stix, sans-serif;}

The reason for this appears to be that the STIX fonts package has errors.

In order to get around this, open your STIX fonts package in FontForge and save - FontForge will inform you of errors. Fix these, and only then import into FontSquirrel. Font fallback should now work correctly.

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