Custom fonts in Github's markdown (like README.md)?

Question

Is it possible to use custom fonts with github's markdown? I'm currently loading an image as a logo, yet rendering a font would be faster and nicer.

Solution 1

rendering a font would be faster and nicer.

Yes, except you wound not use any (multiple) colors in said "icon as a font".
See "GitHub redesigns its icons using a custom font"

You can, of course, take a monotone font-rendered icon and set its colour to, for example, red or blue, but that changes the entire icon; you can’t have different parts of the icon use different colours, or use shading

(example of CSS effects for Icon Font here, from the Trello article)

But, as far as I can see (Markdown Cheatsheet, and Markdown Help), no, you cannot have a custom font.

Solution 2

You can have a custom font, just generate it with https://github.com/crocodilejs/custom-fonts-in-emails and then you can just put the image/upload it to GitHub readme.

Comments

[Michael Wild]

In normal markdown you can use inline HTML, like <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console';">foo</span>, however it seems that the github markdown parser strips these tags out.

[Alex]

Not a great idea for anyone who has any kind of vision impairment, not does it scale well for different devices or even monitor resolutions.