Import custom fonts to JSF

Question

I can't import custom fonts into my JSF pages. Project structure looks like this:

I've tried to write the following in my styles.css:

@font-face {
    font-family: "Gotham Pro Bold";
    src: url('#{resource["fonts/GothaProBol.otf"]}');
}

But it doesn't work. It gets compiled to /javax.faces.resource/fonts/GothaProBol.otf.xhtml, but the font is not in javax.faces.resource and I have no idea why it appends .xhtml.

The following:

src: url("#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/resources/fonts/GothaProBol.otf");

is compiled to

src: url("/resources/fonts/GothaProBol.otf");

but it doesn't work either.

How do I import the fonts properly?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Did this using OmniFaces:

1. Added the dependency (pom.xml):

   <dependency> <groupId>org.omnifaces</groupId> <artifactId>omnifaces</artifactId> <version>1.8.1</version> </dependency>

2. Added OmniFaces' resource handler to faces-config.xml:

   <application> <resource-handler> org.omnifaces.resourcehandler.UnmappedResourceHandler </resource-handler> </application>

3. Mapped /javax.faces.resource/* to FacesServlet as follows (web.xml):

   <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/javax.faces.resource/*</url-pattern> <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>

4. Used #{resource["<path>"]} in CSS, like so:

   @font-face { font-family: "Gotham Pro Bold"; src: url('#{resource["fonts/GothaProBol.otf"]}'); }

Answer 2

I had the same problem. This URL works

    @font-face {
    font-family: "MyFont";
    src:
    url("mfont/mfont.ttf.xhtml?ln=fonts")
    format("truetype")
    }

The file is situated in "/resources/fonts/mfont/mfont.ttf"

Also note that the css file itself is included using h:outputStylesheet (because font urls need to be relative to css)