Load fonts with Webpack and font-face

Question

I'm trying to load a font in my CSS file using @font-face but the font never loads. This is my directory structure.

Then in webpack.config.js I have the loader to get fonts.

var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');

module.exports = {
  devtool: 'eval',
  entry: [
    "./index.js"
  ],
  output: {
    path: __dirname+"/build",
    filename: "main.js"
  },
  plugins: [
    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
  ],
  resolve: {
    extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx']
  },
  module: {
      loaders: [
          { test: /\.js$/, loaders: ['react-hot', 'babel-loader'], exclude: /node_modules/ },
          { test: /\.jsx?$/, loaders: ['react-hot', 'babel-loader'], exclude: /node_modules/ },
          { test: /\.svg$/, loader: "raw" },
          { test: /\.css$/, loader: "style-loader!css-loader" },
          { test: /\.(eot|svg|ttf|woff|woff2)$/, loader: 'file?name=src/css/[name].[ext]'}

      ]
  }
};

Inside my CSS file I have this:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Darkenstone';
  src: url('./Darkenstone.woff') format('woff');
}

body {
  background-color: green;
  font-size: 24px;
  font-family: 'Darkenstone';
}

Finally, I'm calling my CSS file in my index.js with:

import './src/css/master.css';

Everything works but de font never loads.

Solution 1

After trying a lot of stuff the next loader made the work. Instead of file-loader, I used url-loader . You need url-loader installed.

{ test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/, loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000' }

Solution 2

With webpack 4 this is what solved the issue for me (diff):

       {
         test: /\.svg$/,
         use: ['svg-loader']
       },
       {
         test: /\.(eot|woff|woff2|svg|ttf)([\?]?.*)$/,
         use: ['file-loader']
       }
       { test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/, use: ['url-loader?limit=100000'] }

I had to remove svg-loader and file-loader in favor of url-loader

My app.scss file looks like this:

$fa-font-path: '~font-awesome/fonts';
@import '~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome';

$icon-font-path: "~bootstrap-sass/assets/fonts/bootstrap/";
@import '~bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap';

And in my app.js I import the app.scss:

import './app.scss';

So, after the changes, my webpack config looks like this:

const path = require('path');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const webpackConfig = require('./webpack.config');

module.exports = {
  entry: {
    app: './client/app/app.js'
  },
  devtool: 'source-map',
  mode: 'development',
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: 'Development',
      template: 'client/index.html'
    })
  ],
  output: {
    filename: '[name].bundle.js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist')
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
        use: [
          'style-loader',
          'css-loader',
          'sass-loader',
        ],
      },
      { test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/, use: ['url-loader?limit=100000'] }
    ]
  }
};

Solution 3

According to Webpack's Documentation, you need to update your webpack.config.js to handle font files. See the last loader i.e.

{
   test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
   type: 'asset/resource',
  }

We will include all kinds of file format for webpack. The final webpack.config.js file will look something like this.

const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
       entry: './src/index.js',
       output: {
         filename: 'bundle.js',
         path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
       },
       module: {
         rules: [
           {
             test: /\.css$/i,
             use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
           },
           {
             test: /\.(png|svg|jpg|jpeg|gif)$/i,
             type: 'asset/resource',
           },
          {
            test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
            type: 'asset/resource',
          },
         ],
       },
     };

Then, you will have to import the fonts to your entry file. In this case ./src/index.js. With the loader configured and fonts in place, you can incorporate them via an @font-face declaration. The local url(...) directive will be picked up by webpack just as it was with the image.

Solution 4

I was having the same problem. In my case, the 'src' of the font became src="[object Module]".

Disabling esModule on webpack was the solution:

{
  test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|ttf|woff|otf)$/,
  use: [
    {
      loader: 'file-loader',
      options: {
        name: '[name].[contenthash].[ext]',
        outputPath: 'static/img',
        esModule: false // <- here
      }
    }
  ]
}

More info on it here.

Solution 5

I got some issues with my font faces when I updated from Webpack 4.x.x to latest 5.52.1

The content of my exported .woff / .woff2 / .ttf ... looked something like this:

export default __webpack_public_path__ + "glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2";

The solution for me was to simply remove my previous file-loader entirely. It seems the files were being processed multiple times, which caused the error.

Before:

...
module: {
    rules: [
        {
            test: /\.(png|jpg|gif|ico|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|eot)$/,
            use: {
                loader: 'file-loader',
                options: { 
                    name: '[name].[ext]',
                    useRelativePath: true
                }
            }
        },
        {
            test: /\.css$/,
            use: [
                MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
                {
                    loader: 'css-loader',
                    options: { url: false }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
...

After:

...
module: {
    rules: [
        {
            test: /\.css$/,
            use: [
                MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
                {
                    loader: 'css-loader',
                    options: { url: false }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
...

For more information: https://webpack.js.org/guides/asset-modules/

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Comments

[Ebenizer Pinedo]

In my output path (webpack.config.js) I have "build", so with that loader I get another build folder inside build. Something like build/build.

[Esben]

Oh okay, I have removed build/ from the loader. That should put the font in the root of your build folder, yeah? Then add publicPath: 'build/' to output. You can open index.html and find the style tag and see what the url of the font is, it should be build/Darkenstone.woff

[Ebenizer Pinedo]

I get this error in mi console: 95% emitError: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Darkenstone.woff' at Error (native) I've removed Path: __dirname+"/build" to add publicPath, is this ok?

[Esben]

No, you should have both path: __dirname + '/build' and publicPath: 'build/'. Please add the contents of index.html to your question.

[Ebenizer Pinedo]

Actually I've resolved my problem with a different loader, it's in the answer below, but thank you so much for your help ;)

[Eru]

Inline Base64 is not a good idea, as outer resources can be cached more efficiently. And as an addition it interprets 30% slower on Mobile devices which is a huge difference.

[mykeels]

BREAKING CHANGE: It's no longer allowed to omit the '-loader' suffix So, it should be: ``` {test: /\.(eot|svg|ttf|woff|woff2)$/, loader: 'file-loader?name=[name].[ext]'} ```

[Dex]

that did the trick for me, but using url-loader, not file-loader. I'm using webpack 4.43.0

[Narges Moemenyan]

you saved my life after a couple of hours struggling with this error!

[Julian Kleine]

This answer doesn't provide a solution that actually tackles the issue. Just suggesting to update a version is all right, but possibly not the issue here, as you also add a long config, please give an explanation as well and what is possibly different in this config.

[Sfili_81]

Please only link answer isn't useful even if it answer the question. Please add the relevant part of the link into your answer

[trusktr]

This is the correct answer as of Webpack 5. Anything else involving a loader is outdated. file-loader is deprecated: v4.webpack.js.org/loaders/file-loader

[trusktr]

This is no longer the answer if you're using Webpack 5 and up. See @arbob's answer that includes "asset/resource" in it.

[rgoldfinger]

This saved me when trying to add custom font loading to a Next.js project. Thank you!

[Angel Auñón]

Worked perfectly

[ghosh]

Update: Compiling RuleSet failed: Query arguments on 'loader' has been removed in favor of the 'options' property. So that just needs a change